SORE-EYED • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Sore-eyed

... at the Palm Tree House and rode back in the cool of the afternoon to Mogador. We were alone, as we knew the path across the tongue of desert, and had no need of a guide and the rabble of sore-eyed urchins who, like their attendant flies, infest the tourist on his journeyings. On our right the desert rose to meet a near horizon; on our left sandhills and boulders cut off the view; ahead the shimmering line beyond which the sea and city lay. We were enveloped ...

— The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne • William J. Locke

... gout are many. Varied are the lotions for the "pin and web in the eye;" so many are there of these that it makes me suspect that our forefathers were sadly sore-eyed. ...

— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle