half an eye

Example Sentences

• "to keep half an eye on something"
• "And if the reader can add that throughout the length of the book, during all his immersion in the author's purpose, he still had half an eye for the means whereby that purpose was achieved, no conceivable harm is done."
• "As he put it when comparing her to many of her contemporaries, “she liked writing with an intensity which few writers have attained or desired”: Most of them write with half an eye on their royalties, half an eye on their critics, and a third half eye on improving the world, which leaves them with only half an eye for the task on which she concentrated her entire vision."
• "Burke kept half an eye on the pair as he passed them, but he saw no need to stop and help; the experienced constable appeared to be having no difficulty subduing his man, who seemed to still be dazed from the crash."
• "Thus (as you will see with half an eye, my wise little auditors) these good old dames had fallen into a strange perplexity."
• "The veil would be torn to pieces in less than a week, or would be made so transparent that any one, "with half an eye,"— as the saying is, though we never recollect meeting any one who only had "half an eye" —would be able to see through it; and if any one did take the veil, it would be because she could not get any one to marry her, or because some designing Roman Catholic priest had persuaded her, poor girl, for the sake of her fortune, to go into a convent."