EYES in Classic Quotes

1  But it so happened just then, that it was high time for the Captain to mind his own eye.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 13. Wheelbarrow.

2  There was a low rumbling of heavy sea-boots among the benches, and a still slighter shuffling of women's shoes, and all was quiet again, and every eye on the preacher.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.

3  But though the picture lies thus tranced, and though this pine-tree shakes down its sighs like leaves upon this shepherd's head, yet all were vain, unless the shepherd's eye were fixed upon the magic stream before him.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.

4  At last, after much dodging search, he finds the Tarshish ship receiving the last items of her cargo; and as he steps on board to see its Captain in the cabin, all the sailors for the moment desist from hoisting in the goods, to mark the stranger's evil eye.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.

5  His deep chest heaved as with a ground-swell; his tossed arms seemed the warring elements at work; and the thunders that rolled away from off his swarthy brow, and the light leaping from his eye, made all his simple hearers look on him with a quick fear that was strange to them.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 9. The Sermon.

6  I was called from these reflections by the sight of a freckled woman with yellow hair and a yellow gown, standing in the porch of the inn, under a dull red lamp swinging there, that looked much like an injured eye, and carrying on a brisk scolding with a man in a purple woollen shirt.

Moby Dick By Herman Melville
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER 15. Chowder.