She imagined this was the way it had worked with the fabled lynx-eyed librarians back at Alexandria. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"Not less 'n eight hundred in it," calculated the lynx-eyed Kink; and on the strength of it he took the first opportunity of a privy conversation with Bidwell, proprietor of the bad whisky and the tent. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But did I betray my desperate plight to those lynx-eyed guardians of the public welfare of Winnipeg? ❋ Unknown (2010)
AUTUMN, SEASON OF MISTS AND MELLOW FRUITFULness, is upon the nation's capital, the frost is on the pumpkin and the vice president, lynx-eyed on behalf of the public weal, is laying siege to the citadel of our complacency by lecturing a covey of television weather forecasters to be on the lookout for global warming. ❋ Unknown (2008)
But, on the contrary, with lynx-eyed penetration he had seen through the sacred books of the Hebrews, the Babylonians, the Egyptians, the ❋ Unknown (2007)
Little lynx-eyed Dr. Von Finck, who attends most of the polite company at Baden, drove ceaselessly about the place that day, with the real version of the fainting-fit story, about which we may be sure the wicked and malicious, and the uninitiated, had a hundred absurd details. ❋ Unknown (2006)
There were billets on one side and the other; hints of a fatal destiny, and a ruthless, lynx-eyed tyrant, who held a demoniac grasp over the Duchess by means of certain secrets which he knew: there were regrets that we had not known each other sooner: why were we brought out of our convent and sacrificed to ❋ Unknown (2006)
However much my figure might have resembled that of the Pitan, and, disguised in his armor, might have deceived the lynx-eyed Mahrattas, into whose camp I was about to plunge, it was evident that a single glance at my fair face and auburn beard would have undeceived the dullest blockhead in ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the course of their descent, Mr. Jarvie and I became exposed to their lynx-eyed observation, and instantly half-a-dozen of armed ❋ Unknown (2005)
“Did he call me lynx-eyed and enlightened by God?” ❋ Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- (2005)
I seemed to be able to see right through that tight-lipped, lynx-eyed mask. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was always put by that horrid young lynx-eyed new commissioner, who sat there with his hair brushed high from off his forehead, peering out of his capacious, excellently-washed shirt-collars, a personification of conscious official zeal. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It interested them to hear about the abundance and tameness of the monkeys, although it was scarcely news; but how tame they must have been when I, the stranger not to the manner born — not naked, brown-skinned, lynx-eyed, and noiseless as an owl in his movements — had yet been able to look closely at them! ❋ Unknown (2004)
About two leagues beyond this curious tree we halted for the night: at this instant an unfortunate cow was spied by the lynx-eyed Gauchos, who set off in full chase, and in a few minutes dragged her in with their lazos, and slaughtered her. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Curiously enough, Madame Midas, lynx-eyed as she was, never suspected the true state of affairs. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Nothing escaped his mental vision; he was lynx-eyed; in him the mental powers of perception, which seem like duplicates of the senses, had the mysterious power of swift projection that astonishes us in intellects of a high order — slingers who are quick to detect the weak spot in any armor. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For, watching lynx-eyed, Mahony fancied each time the fat man propelled his paunch out of the sickroom it was a shade less surely: there were nuances, too, in the way he pronounced his vapid: “As long as our strength is well maintained ... well maintained.” ❋ Unknown (2003)
