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  • It had a tail that lashed back and forth restlessly, a hairless head, legs that bent the wrong way at the knees, a lipless mouth full of pointed teeth, and'most horrible of all-eyes she would have recog-nized on any Elvenlord.

    Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

  • Now it might be a dozen bream, called by the fishermen "brim," "redfish," or "all-eyes"; again up would come a catfish, savage and sharp-toothed, able to dent an ash oar; and rarely a small halibut would appear, drowned on the trawl.

    Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Albert Walter Tolman

  • Then be glanced swiftly at the Turks, and at Peter Measel, who was staring all-eyes at Maga on the far side of the room.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920

  • Then be glanced swiftly at the Turks, and at Peter Measel, who was staring all-eyes at Maga on the far side of the room.

    The Eye of Zeitoon Talbot Mundy 1909

  • Sadly for Vermont, the final swing of their season took a unusually heartbreaking turn at a time when all-eyes were on them.

    College Hockey News from CHN 2009

  • _for_ argument, all-eyes _for_ allies, aloud _for_ allowed, banish'd _for_ ravish'd, cancel _for_ cantel, candle _for_ caudle, culsedness

    Literary Blunders Henry Benjamin Wheatley 1877

  • "But it's going to be an all-eyes forward on the IE update.

    CIO.in 2009

  • "But it's going to be an all-eyes forward on the IE update.

    Computerworld News 2009

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