white-eyed

• “Fancy yelled at the white-eyed thing standing before her.”

  Simon & Schuster: Slice Of Cherry

• “His wonderful "Boat Poem" celebrates both ship-building and the kind of seaworthy art he admires:And having in their swerving planks and the point of their bowsthe never-enough-to-be-praisedauthority of a great tradition, the sea-shapesimple and true like a vase, something that stays too in the carved head of an eagleor that white-eyed wooden hound crying up beneath the bowsprit.”

  The Guardian: Complete Poetry, Translations and Selected Prose by Bernard Spencer – review

• “But what of Goldman Sachs, the ostensible target of this white-eyed vigilantism?”

  The Huffington Post: Goldman Sachs Fraud Suit: The Populist Veneer

• “Important breeding wetland species include marbled teal Marmaronetta angustirostris (VU,35), white-headed duck Oxyura leucocephala (EN,400, which nest mainly in artificial ponds in surrounding areas), white-eyed pochard Aythya niroca (VU), purple gallinule Porphyrio porphyrio and crested coot Fulica cristata.”

  Doñana National Park, Spain

• “These include the near-endemic white-eyed prinia Prinia leontica (VU), the grey-winged robinchat Cossypha polioptera, lemon dove Columba larvata, Sharp's apalis Apalis sharpei, whitenecked rockfowl Picathartes gymnocephalus (VU) and Nimba flycatcher Melaenornis annamarulae (VU), A detailed account of birds in Liberian Nimba is given in Coston & Curry-Lindahl (1986).”

  Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, Guinea and Côte d'Ivoire

• “There were strange, white-eyed men and women standing in the river, and they rocked the wicker man along with the current.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Tudors: King Takes Queen

• “He sits back in the oarless boat as other dead faces emerge, all white-eyed and wide-mouthed, with fatally wounded necks below them.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Redleys

• “The sense of the meeting seemed to be, oh, hoity-toity miss, and the leader of the opposition said no doubt she would want to marry the white-eyed villain ... you understand that I give you the gist of the conversation, so well as I heard and understood it.”

  Fictionaut: Isabelle

• “Among the numerous bird species found here are the prothonotary warbler, white-eyed vireo, wood duck, yellow-billed cuckoo, Louisiana waterthrush, and all the species found in the Southeastern Mixed Forest.”

  Lower Mississippi Riverine Forest Province (Bailey)

• “Usually the tanagers stay down in the creek woods--but I've seen several bird species in the yard that I've seen before only down in the woods: white-eyed vireo, yellow warbler, painted bunting, and now, the tanager.”

  80Acres: new yard bird

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