23 examples of ox-eyed in sentences

HOMER had sung about the ox-eyed Juno, and WALTER WHITMAN about bob veal.

"Now by sweet Cupid his tender bow!" panted Sir Jocelyn"by the cestus of lovely Venusaye, by the ox-eyed Juno, I swear 'twas featly done, Sir Smith!" Quoth Beltane, taking up the fallen sword: "'Tis a trick I learned of that great and glorious knight, Sir Benedict of Bourne.

His huge ox-eyes rolled.

Take a freshly removed ox-eye; dissect the sclerotic from that part of its posterior segment near the optic nerve.

" The two other children were toiling up and down the banks of the railroad-track, picking ox-eye daisies, buttercups, and sorrel.

They may never again gather so many ox-eye daisies and buttercups "all at once."

Herè, the queen of Olympus, called the Golden-Throned, the Venerable, the Ox-Eyed, was a sort of celestial Queen Bess, the undaunted she-Tudor, whose father, bluff Harry, was not a bad human copy of Zeus himself, the Rejoicer in Thunder.

Harebells and pink campion grew on the banks, and the meadows were full of ox-eye daisies; but I saw nothing besides that was in the least attractive, and certainly nothing of which I could make a picture.

'I have entered the service of a new Master, that's all; and, Tom,' I said timidly, 'I wish He was your Master too.' Tom made no answer, but swung his stick round and round, and slashed at the thistles and the ox-eye daisies which grew by the roadside.

Homer useth that epithet of ox-eyed, in describing Juno, because a round black eye is the best, the son of beauty, and farthest from black the worse: which [4950]Polydore Virgil taxeth in our nation:

I've seen trouble caused in this world by kitten faces, by pure, classic faces, by ox-eyed-Juno faces, by vivid blond faces, by dreamy, poetic faces, by passionate Southern faces, but for real power of catastrophe, for earthquake and eclipse, for red ruin and the breaking up of laws, commend me to the humanized, feminized monkey face.

And then, of course, he fell in love with her, for she leaned on his piano and improvised flatteries across the strings to him and turned full on him the luminous midnight of her ox-eyed beauty.

" He made great ox-eyes at her, his hand still begging, its blunt fingers curled upward like a thirsty cup.

[Footnote 2: The ox-eyed, venerable Juno.]

Bedstraw galium and field scabious, ox-eyes and knapweed, bladder-campions and ragged robins, mallows and crane's-billall the flowers of the English banks seemed to be there.

The Ox-Eye, so called by seamen, is a remarkable appearance in the heavens, resembling a small lurid speck, and always precedes two particular storms, known only between the tropics.

Some were both ox-eyed an' peroxide.

Her green pupils, when freed from their near-sighted glasses, had the tranquil opacity of ox-eyes; but the minute these gold-mounted crystals were placed between her and the outer world, the two glaucous drops took on a sharpness which fairly perforated persons and objects.

[Footnote 2: The ox-eyed, venerable Juno.]

OEIL-DE-BOEUF, a large reception-room in the palace of Versailles, lighted by a window so called (ox-eye it means), and is the name given in French history to the French Court, particularly during the Revolution period.

748 Ox-eye Daisy Chrysanthemum Leucanthe-mum 749.

632 nobilis Showy ditto c.m. 633 abrotanifolia Southernwood-leaved ditto c.m. 634 Buphthalmum grandiflorum Great-flowered Ox-eye l.

"If the highest result of the true 'Development' is decomposition, why see What a very perfectly developed young man this developed young man must be." With your perky paradoxes, and your talk of "crinkled ox-eyes," and of books in "Nile-green skin.

23 examples of  ox-eyed  in sentences