eyepatch

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Usually sported with over-compensatory energy by goons with little or no actual musical musical input to make - the bloke in Dr Hook with the eyepatch, the bloke in the Moody Blues with the big moustache, Mick Jagger, Andrew Ridgeley ...

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  • Despite recent outbreaks off the Horn of Africa, piracy still conjures up other images than freebooting Somali fishermen.Your standard-issue pirate from Central Casting will have an eyepatch, an earring, a parrot on his shoulder or a wooden leg – or any combination of the above.
  • His eyepatch was gone, and the left eye that Angie had not seen for months was as bloodshot as though he had just come off a three-day drunk--though she noticed that it was not wandering at all. —  Fantasy and Science Fiction - [Vol 111] - Issue 04-05 - October-November 2006
  • The man with the eyepatch was a friend of Kirana's, it turned out; his name was Hasan, and he introduced himself to Budur and invited her to sit on the wall bench next to him and his group of acquaintances, including singers and actors from the institute, and the city's theatres. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • Suppose the guy with the eyepatch was only out to scare you? —  The Luxembourg Run
  • “They were Magi.” His face behind the eyepatch was impassive. —  Kushiel’s Avatar
 

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