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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having large, prominent eyes.

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Examples

  • "I didn't hear you," said Zora, looking at her full-eyed and telling the half-truth easily.

    The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel 1915

  • In it we see Chaucer, limned from memory, in his familiar hood and gown, rosary in hand, plump, full-eyed, fork-bearded.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • At the door, Cora, without pausing, threw him a look over her shoulder: a full-eyed shot of frankest hatred.

    The Flirt 1912

  • Cora, without pausing, threw him a look over her shoulder: a full-eyed shot of frankest hatred.

    The Flirt Booth Tarkington 1907

  • THOSE memorable days that move in procession, their heads just out of the mist of years long dead -- the most of them are full-eyed as the dandelion that from dawn to shade has steeped itself in sunlight.

    Dream Days 1898

  • Those memorable days that move in procession, their heads just out of the mist of years long dead -- the most of them are full-eyed as the dandelion that from dawn to shade has steeped itself in sunlight.

    Dream Days Kenneth Grahame 1895

  • Bessie Prawle was a handsome, red-haired girl, deep in the breast, full-eyed and of great colour.

    Lore of Proserpine Maurice Hewlett 1892

  • Both their full-eyed [27] aspects [65] and secret glances.

    The Treasury of Sacred Song 1890

  • "Oh!" cried Miss Graham, staring full-eyed at him.

    Indian Summer William Dean Howells 1878

  • Not the ordinary domestic mouse, for the little animal was one of the large, full-eyed, long-tailed garden mice, and my attention was directed to it by seeing the cat making what sporting people call "a point" at something.

    Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure George Manville Fenn 1870

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