Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having eyes suited for seeing well at night; sharp-eyed; nyctalopic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed.
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Examples
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In this version, he came down with smallpox, was abandoned, and nursed back to health by a Mexican woman who had been a captive herself the “night-eyed” “Aztec” beauty.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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In another completely made-up “historical” account that appeared in many places, her younger brother and fellow captive, John Parker, courts a “night-eyed” “Aztec” beauty, a captive herself, whiling away the idle hours in amorous talk.
EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010
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Galina smiled, a sliver of teeth in night-eyed sternness.
Lord of Chaos Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1994
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And even if he did so, he could not go far on the guarded road beyond: not even the black shadows, lying deep where the red glow could not reach, would shield him long from the night-eyed orcs.
The Lord of the Rings Tolkien, J. R. R. 1954
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He did not know of the soft-footed, night-eyed creatures of prey -- the fox, the lynx, the fisher-cat, the mink and the ermine, nor of the round-eyed, feathered murderers in the tree-tops -- yet that same something told him they were out there among the shadows, under the luring glow of the moon.
The Country Beyond James Oliver Curwood 1903
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