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Lynx-eyed

adjective

Having very keen vision. Synonyms: argus-eyed, hawk-eyed, keen-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp-eyed, sharp-sighted.

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"Lynx-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books

... compunction about rushing off to work on a newspaper, day after day, and leaving me daughterless," complained Mr. Ashe lightly. Yet a shadow so slight as to be hardly noticeable crossed his face, which no one save the lynx-eyed Elfreda saw, who made mental note of it. "He doesn't want her to work," was ...

— Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... that his spirits were depressed. He watched the drifting storm for a few minutes, and then turned away and looked for a novel in his bag, and filled a pipe with some English tobacco he had jealously guarded from the lynx-eyed custom-house men in New York, and then sat down with a sigh before his small coal fire, and prepared to ...

— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

Words linked to "Lynx-eyed" : quick-sighted, sighted