window-eyes

She had been staring outside, watching the unblinking window-eyes of the train watch the barren landscape that rolled by.

Road-trip 2009

In the village were three cottages, their backs to the forest; their rugged noses seemed to scowl from beneath the pine-trees, and their dim, tear-dribbling window-eyes looked wolfish.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

Fran, eager for the first morning's view of her new home, stared at the half-dozen cottages across the street, standing back in picket - fenced yards with screens of trees before their window-eyes.

Fran 1913

The shabby-genteel little houses of the Appian Way, in Cambridge, whose window-eyes with their blue-green lids had watched Bennie Hooker come and go, trudging back and forth to lectures and recitations, first as boy and then as man, for thirty years, must have blinked with amazement at the sight of the little professor as he started on the afterward famous Hooker Expedition to Labrador in search of the Flying Ring.

The Man Who Rocked the Earth Arthur Cheney Train 1910

For some foolish reason the last house but one in that imperfect row especially haunted me with its hollow grin and empty window-eyes.

A Miscellany of Men 1905

The huge pile looked like a sleeping dragon with its hundreds of window-eyes close-lidded, and I could not imagine it an amusing place for a house party.

The Princess Passes 1901

It looks just like a brownie, doesn't it, with its surprised window-eyes?

Three Little Cousins Amy Ella Blanchard 1891

Perhaps, too, the window-eyes peering into the crystal could see the figure of Sir Walter Scott, seeking and finding inspiration in the

The Heather-Moon 1889

But the thing which left the clearest picture in my brain was a sight sweet as well as sad: a charming little château, ruined by fire, yet pathetically lovely in martyrdom; the green trellis still ornamenting its stained façade, a few autumn roses peeping with child-like curiosity into gaping window-eyes; a silent old gardener raking the one patch of lawn buried under blackened tiles and tumbled bricks.

Everyman's Land 1889

It spread its greenery to the view of those window-eyes decades before the Revolution, and when that fiery torch flamed upon the country's record the college green furnished a camping place for the freedom-loving Frenchmen who came over the sea to help set our stars permanently into the blue of our national sky.

Literary Hearthstones of Dixie La Salle Corbell Pickett 1889