eye-sweep

There had been an accident at the Works: that was clear in one eye-sweep.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

There was nothing to break the eye-sweep but the cones of rusted buttes, the nearer ones showing every crease and shadow thread, the farther floating detached in the faint, opal shimmer of the mirage.

The Emigrant Trail Geraldine Bonner 1900

On each hilltop the vast sweep of the inter-mountain wilderness came into view, and from the highest point in the trail, reached when the sun was dipping toward the western horizon, the eye-sweep took in the broken country lying between the Pannikin and the path of the Transcontinental narrow gauge forty miles away.

Empire Builders Francis Lynde 1893

This conclusion was confirmed a little later when two other travellers, announcing themselves to the ear as the first one had, and also, like the first, invisible to the sharpest eye-sweep of the moonlit plain, passed him at speed.

The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush Francis Lynde 1893

Loring oriented himself in a leisurely eye-sweep, and so came by easy gradations to the speaker.

The Grafters Francis Lynde 1893

Thirty, forty, and more miles of eye-sweep, and beyond that the limitless expanse over the sea -- the thought of the eye knows no butt, shooting on with stellar penetration into the unknown.

Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies Richard Jefferies 1867

C.ngress’s fiery fight night was all over the news, and Barack Obama and John McC.in were still in Washington, D.C. As we boarded at La Guardia in the rain and wind, I did my usual eye-sweep of first class.

Touchdown in the Land of the Delta Blues : Claire Howorth Howorth, Claire 2008