eyeglance
English
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[edit]eyeglance (plural eyeglances)
- A glance of the eye.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And ever, as Dissemblaunce laught on him, / He lowrd on her with daungerous eyeglaunce […].
- 1823, Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well:
- Perilous as her eyeglances were, and much as they menaced, Lord Etherington felt at this moment the importance of soothing Lady Penelope to silence […].
- 2008, MH Ford, Personal Power:
- The sideways eye glance is a widespread expression combining a lowered head and the eyes looking sideways, thus taking advantage of boldness and shyness at the same time.