"Round-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in Bill, who had been listening round-eyed, until now actually more than half believing his father to be in cynical jest. "We're known all over the county as the place that has electric lights in the barns and lamps ...
— Dust • Mr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
... round-eyed reproach.) I've scalded it aw-fully! Aren't you sorry? And I did so want ...
— The Works of Rudyard Kipling One Volume Edition • Rudyard Kipling
... There, round-eyed, Jimmy stared about him. He had never been inside of St. Giles's before. It was quite possible that he would never find himself inside of it again. He took in the beauty of the great church; its blaze of lights; its masses of flowers; its whispering, ...
— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan
... idea," mused the Minor Poet. "I shall see them in the twilight: pathetic little round-eyed things of goblin shape, dimly luminous against the darkening air. Whence come you, little tender Thought, tapping at my brain? From the lonely forest, where the peasant mother croons above the cradle while she knits? Thought of Love and Longing: lies your ...
— Tea-table Talk • Jerome K. Jerome
... Betty had a glimpse of the drawing-room through the open doors. In a confused way she noticed mirrors and statuary and portraits, handsome old furniture and rare pieces of bric-a-brac; but one thing caught her attention so that she stood a moment in round-eyed admiration. It was a large harp, whose gracefully curving frame gleamed through the shadowy room like burnished gold. Fair and tall it stood, as if its strings had just been swept by some of the Shining Ones beyond, who were a part ...
— The Little Colonel's House Party • Annie Fellows Johnston
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