Word: eye
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Eggs and bacon immediately leapt to his mind's eye and he scurried off to the House of Commons restaurant. To his great indignation, he found that breakfast was not served. To his querulous protestation he was informed that sessions of the House lasted until 8 o'clock in the morning only "once in a blue moon...
...about 11, something woke in the obscure night over their heads; at first no more than a drowsy, indistinguishable murmur, then a louder whine, like the nasal complaining of some fabulous insect; presently its eye became visible?a small inflamed pimple, swathed in huge bandages of mist. The more alert of the two campers nudged his companion...
...Sounds like a big mosquito," grumbled the other. Realizing that their bivouac was near the route of the New York-Chicago Night Air Mail, she sat up to look, but even as she stared into the vague heavens, the buzzing stopped, the eye winked and began to circle lower and lower until it came to rest at the other end of the field...
...large fellow; muscles, or some fatty tissue, bulged beneath the neat black coat which, despite the obvious fact that it had been made for its wearer, had a curious air of having been stolen. Whose was that ovine yet sturdy countenance ? Whose that beady eye? Whose but William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey's, Heavyweight Champion of the World. The referee introduced him to the crowd; the Nation's hero rose to receive his accustomed mead of adulation...
...that the shooting at Shameen, Canton, had been done by "angry students and workmen." As I had left Canton the Saturday before the shooting, and was in Hongkong at the time, I am in a position to know that your statement was (unintentionally) misleading. I have talked with an eye-witness from the Shameen side and have heard fully the Chinese point of view from colleagues of mine who were at Canton Christian College the afternoon of the shooting; I have, also, a copy of the British Consul-General's affidavit giving the facts as he witnessed them. There were...