ferret-eyed

They had a prisoner, a ferret-eyed, dapper youth who looked out at them and at his jailers with assumed jauntiness.

"Power" by Harl Vincent, part 8 Johnny Pez 2010

We pass the "cattymount," and presently come to a table at which a young and handsome "pilgrim," and a ferret-eyed sharp are engaged at cards.

Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Edward L. Wheeler

The only man I saw who seemed to have anything like a balanced mind was the financial shark, a little ferret-eyed, onery-looking cuss whom I wouldn't have trusted out of my sight.

Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Thorne Smith 1913

He had a big head and a keen, ferret-eyed face, and just now was looking round the end of his sofa at the visitors.

T. Tembarom 1913

"We've lost so much lately," a small ferret-eyed man was saying,

Constance Dunlap 1908

When he stepped back and closed the door, there stood beside him another man, clean-shaven, lean, sharp-nosed and ferret-eyed, whose footstep was almost as light as that of the Swami himself.

Jewel Weed Alice Ames Winter 1904

She was a ferret-eyed, blond-haired, spindle-legged little creature whose mind was a cross between that of a parrot and a sheep.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm 1903

Duty and inclination thus happily wedded, Pringle set himself to goad ferret-eyed Creagan and the heavy-jawed sheriff into unwise speech.

The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901

And the ferret-eyed little man there noted the fact, bitterly resented it, and vented his ill-humor accordingly.

Bob, Son of Battle Alfred Ollivant 1900

Badmayev, a small, ferret-eyed man, his features of Tartar cast, came and dined with us, after which Rasputin signed a cheque for twenty-eight thousand roubles, a sum to which "the doctor" was entitled under an agreement.

The Minister of Evil The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia William Le Queux 1895