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  • Thereat the city of San Francisco was overrun by anxious-eyed emissaries, and commission houses and dairy associations were startled by a sudden demand for eggs running not more than twenty ounces to the dozen.

    THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

  • To see a big, strong man anxious-eyed as a child because of a strange sound amused her.

    The Trespasser 2003

  • The moment the horses halted, an anxious-eyed footman in unadorned black opened the coach door, holding out a broad flat parasol of dark oiled cloth.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

  • She crossed the puttering little brook by the simple expedient of jumping from one bank to the other and scrambled through the willow trees, emerging, flushed and anxious-eyed, to confront a boy about fourteen years old in a torn straw hat and faded overalls and a tall, lean middle-aged man with a pitchfork in his hands.

    Betty Gordon in Washington Alice B. Emerson

  • And now -- she lay there, like a sleeping child, the dark tendrils of hair clinging to her moist, sun-flushed cheeks, her long lashes mingling their shadows with the purple underlining of the night's terrors, homeless, exhausted, resourceless but for that anxious-eyed young man.

    The Fortieth Door Mary Hastings Bradley

  • On the evening following the receipt of Miriam's letter, an anxious-eyed young man swung off the eight o'clock train into Oakdale, and hailing a taxicab was whirled away from the station toward the Harlowe's home.

    Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower

  • The change in her appearance was even more startling to the little anxious-eyed girl than in John's case.

    Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley Belle Kanaris Maniates

  • "But sir, how ... .." began the anxious-eyed underling.

    Galactic Patrol Smith, E. E. 1950

  • And now that pride had broken down, was gone for ever, so far as this man was concerned, it was a very loving anxious-eyed, trembling woman who watched for the coming of the man that she loved and needed, the man who meant all the happiness this world could give her.

    The Imaginary Marriage Henry St. John Cooper

  • Mrs. King, anxious-eyed, was talking to someone in the kitchen.

    Captivity M. Leonora Eyles 1924

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