meek-eyed

• “And because he was in fact Christ-like in appearance -- meek-eyed, bearded, with a radiant smile -- I took a moment to think.”

  Lara Santoro: What Prompted Me to Write Mercy

• “O my dear Lady G.! said Emily, as we followed the meek-eyed goddess of wisdom [such her air, her manner, her amiableness, seemed in my thought, at that time, to make her], never, never, was such graciousness!”

  Sir Charles Grandison

• “Which meek-eyed courage decked with freshest grace; —”

  The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• “You shouldn't talk so about ma, Charley,' said his meek-eyed brother.”

  Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

• “In the stable Billy, the fat pony, munched and snoozed every day and all day long, except when occasionally he was harnessed into the basket-carriage to take the aunties for a drive, or ambled into the meadow, where Strawberry and Daisy, the meek-eyed Alderney cows, browsed at will over the sweet, juicy after-grass.”

  Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls

• “Then comes Law, with its whips and bonds, to chastise and tie up "the offending Adam" -- that is, the Adam without a pocket, -- and then the gentle violence of kindly Mother Church leads the poor man far from the fatal presence of his Gorgon wants, to consort him with meek-eyed Charity, -- to give him glimpses of the Land of”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841

• “He lived to greet the return of "meek-eyed peace," and then he gently laid his head upon her bosom, and breathed out there his noble spirit.”

  Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis

• “I awoke you because you were unhappy, and it was dangerous for one so young as you to lie asleep in the streets," replied the meek-eyed woman.”

  Adrien Leroy

• “Piety is the meek-eyed maid of heaven, that holds her sister Faith in one hand and Hope in the other, and looks upward with a confiding smile, saying, "My treasure is above.”

  Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.

• “Though fleet as the wind, I have seen many of the meek-eyed little fellows watch too long, and pay for their curiosity with their lives.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866

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