"Lay eyes on" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and down the piano, fast and never catching up. Del Monte motif slow, lazy melody—ending with dance-music for night-time. In plain English, what Del Monte meant was a care-free, absolutely care-free, jaunt into another world. It was not our world,—we could have been happy forever did we never lay eyes on Del Monte,—and yet, oh, it was such fun! Think of lazing in bed till eight or eight-thirty, then taking a leisurely bath, then dressing and deliberately using up time doing it—put one shoe on and look at it a spell; then, when you are ...
— An American Idyll - The Life of Carleton H. Parker • Cornelia Stratton Parker
... gone, I tell you, she's lost, we'll never lay eyes on her again. My God, I never thought she'd come to this, but I might have guessed it. Lise! Lise! To think it's ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... "However, I'd like to lay eyes on the sort of man who can unjoint this devilish combination of politics and law and finance," he informed himself, trying to justify ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... what they all say, the minute they lay eyes on that button! You see, that's a magic button, so it's no wonder everybody wants one. Friends, ...
— Sure Pop and the Safety Scouts • Roy Rutherford Bailey
... Follet. "He's gone, and I don't doubt he went straight to old man Greely's for the night. If he did, he's cut across the woods and run into some moonshiners. They'll take him for a government man and shoot him soon's they lay eyes on him!" ...
— The Boy from Hollow Hut - A Story of the Kentucky Mountains • Isla May Mullins |
