Sore Eyed

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. ❋ Unknown (1969)

But when it comes to sleeping in the same room with six sore-eyed kittens and in the same bed with a mangy street dog, I think something should be done about it. ❋ Josephine Lawrence (N/A)

"Ruth is always picking up the sore-eyed kittens." ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)

"Of course, you'd pick up some sore-eyed kitten," complained Ann Hicks. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

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. ❋ Ruth Pierce (N/A)

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. ❋ Unknown (1939)

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. ❋ Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 (1931)

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. ❋ Unknown (1914)

The steps usually are crowded with dirty, quarreling children and a sore-eyed cat or two. ❋ Honor�� Morrow (1910)

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. ❋ Unknown (1909)

But I sat down again pretty promptly, for I had no sooner got to my feet than the woman in black got up too, and throwing aside the embroidered _sari_ disclosed none other than Athelstan King looking sore-eyed from lack of sleep and rather weak from all he had gone through, but humorously determined, nevertheless. ❋ Talbot Mundy (1909)

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. ❋ Marshall Saunders (1904)

Later, the dogs, sneaking and sore-eyed, and more numerous than any other species, take up the refrain. ❋ Trumbull White (1904)

He 'ad to speak about it' imself at last, and he told 'em plain that when 'e wanted arf-a-dozen sore-eyed children to be brought down in their night-gowns to kiss' im while he was eating sausages, he'd say so. ❋ Unknown (1903)

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. ❋ Various (1899)

Besides, lap dogs are much better now than in the days when the choice lay only between sore-eyed white poodles and pugs. ❋ Mabel Osgood Wright (1896)