"Of course, you'd pick up some sore-eyed kitten," complained Ann Hicks. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund] Reference
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fool's allowance. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
An attendant was tenderly bandaging the blinking lids of a sore-eyed duck: another was feeding a blind crow, who, it must be confessed, looked here very much like some fat member of the New York Ring cunningly availing himself of the more toothsome rations in the sick ward of the penitentiary. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
There were old men with long, white, patriarchal beards flowing over their dirty black gowns; there were younger men with peaked black caps and long black beards; and there were women who had pushed back their black shawls for air, and who held sore-eyed, whining babies listlessly on their knees. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Wise Sayings Selected Largely from Eastern Sources] Reference
The steps usually are crowded with dirty, quarreling children and a sore-eyed cat or two. From Wordnik.com. [The Enchanted Canyon] Reference
Later, the dogs, sneaking and sore-eyed, and more numerous than any other species, take up the refrain. From Wordnik.com. [Our War with Spain for Cuba's Freedom] Reference
Besides, lap dogs are much better now than in the days when the choice lay only between sore-eyed white poodles and pugs. From Wordnik.com. [People of the Whirlpool] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Customs and Fashions in Old New England] Reference
The people that assemble to gaze upon me are the same sore-eyed crowd that characterizes most Persian villages; and among them is one man totally blind. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
An enormous flask of water hung from the roof in slings, but there was no food in sight and we were all of us ravenously hungry as well as sore-eyed from lack of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Jimgrim]
Many of the streets are a good deal less than six feet wide, the houses are completely windowless, and sore-eyed children cluster everywhere in unbelievable numbers, like clouds of flies. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
Many a poor sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fools allowance. From Wordnik.com. [Walking [1862]] Reference
Many a poor, sore-eyed student that I have heard of would grow faster, both intellectually and physically, if, instead of sitting up so very late, he honestly slumbered a fools allowance. From Wordnik.com. [Walking] Reference
Many of the children of the factories I visited were sore-eyed, and there was hardly a poor mite who did not rub his eyes with the back of his hand when I asked him to suspend work for a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Across Coveted Lands or a Journey from Flushing (Holland) to Calcutta Overland] Reference
Each child had a large slice of bread, and a piece of cold pork, and even the little, sore-eyed baby held a crust of bread and a piece of pork in his hand, which he tried to stuff into his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel] Reference
Here a halt is made for tea and such rude refreshments as are obtainable, consuming them in the presence of the usual sore-eyed and miserable-looking crowd; more than one poor wretch appealing to me to cure his rapidly-failing sight. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
One day, when there was no one about and the garden was very quiet, I saw her go stealing into the stable, and come out again, followed by a sore-eyed, starved-looking cat, that had been deserted by some people that lived in the next street. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Joe] Reference
If the inhabitants of Ki-shway are scrofulous, sore-eyed, and mangy, they are at least an improvement on the disgusting state of the public health at Sin-kiang, as revealed in the lamentable condition of the crowd at the yamen and in the markets. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
The rear guard assumes considerable dignity when in the presence of a crowd of sore-eyed rustics; he chides their ill-bred giggling at my appearance and movements by telling them, no matter how funny I appear to them here, I am a mandarin in my own country. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Laban swindled Jacob when he contracted to give him for seven years 'labor his beautiful daughter Rachel, and then palmed off on him her sore-eyed sister Leah, and then Jacob got even with Laban by swindling him en revanche in that trick he played on his cattle, by which he caused their young to be spotted and striped. From Wordnik.com. [A Controversy Between "Erskine" and "W. M." on the Practicability of Suppressing Gambling.] Reference
One gets so thoroughly disgusted with the ever-present trickery, dishonesty, and prying, unrestrained curiosity of the ragged, sore-eyed and garrulous crowds that gather about one at every halting place, that a person actually comes to prefer a mere crust of bread in peace by a road-side pool to the best a city bazaar affords. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Half-way between Orkney and Shetland, there lies a certain isle; on the one hand the Atlantic, on the other the North Sea, bombard its pillared cliffs; sore-eyed, short-living, inbred fishers and their families herd in its few huts; in the graveyard pieces of wreck-wood stand for monuments; there is nowhere a more inhospitable spot. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays] Reference
Mussulman, joined in wedlock to three or four sore-eyed village damsels; worshipped as a sort of strange, superior being, hakim and eye-water dispenser; consulted as a walking store-house of occult philosophy on all occasions; endeavoring to educate the people up to habits of all-round cleanliness; chiding the mothers for allowing the flies to swarm and devour the poor little babies 'eyes -- all this, for toke-me-morge, pillau, mast, and sheerah, twice or thrice a day!. From Wordnik.com. [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference
Dez blinked, sore-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Town] Reference
The greasy cook with sore-eyed look. From Wordnik.com. [Cane Cutter's Lament] Reference
I couldn't baffle a sore-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Winds of Chance] Reference
'sallow,' 'sore-eyed,' 'puny,' 'squeaky-voiced,' 'sickly,'. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing to the Front] Reference
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