Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An offense or sorrow to the eye or sight.
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Examples
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For all ruinous incomplete things, buildings or other, were an eye-sorrow to the man.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Abbot Samson built many useful, many pious edifices: ALL ruinous, incomplete things an eye-sorrow to him.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Abbot Samson built many useful, many pious edifices: All ruinous, incomplete things an eye-sorrow to him.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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For all ruinous incomplete things, buildings or other, were an eye-sorrow to the man.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Brigands are still an eye-sorrow to each other; suspected, suspicious, in what they do and forbear.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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On the 28th day of February, Saint-Antoine turns out, as it has now often done; and, apparently with little superfluous tumult, moves eastward to that eye-sorrow of Vincennes.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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