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And because he was in fact Christ-like in appearance -- meek-eyed, bearded, with a radiant smile -- I took a moment to think.

Lara Santoro: What Prompted Me to Write Mercy 2007

O my dear Lady G.! said Emily, as we followed the meek-eyed goddess of wisdom [such her air, her manner, her amiableness, seemed in my thought, at that time, to make her], never, never, was such graciousness!

Sir Charles Grandison 2006

Which meek-eyed courage decked with freshest grace; —

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

Piety is the meek-eyed maid of heaven, that holds her sister Faith in one hand and Hope in the other, and looks upward with a confiding smile, saying, "My treasure is above."

Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. George Sumner Weaver

"I awoke you because you were unhappy, and it was dangerous for one so young as you to lie asleep in the streets," replied the meek-eyed woman.

Adrien Leroy Charles Garvice

'You shouldn't talk so about ma, Charley,' said his meek-eyed brother.

Continental Monthly , Vol. 5, No. 6, June, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

In the stable Billy, the fat pony, munched and snoozed every day and all day long, except when occasionally he was harnessed into the basket-carriage to take the aunties for a drive, or ambled into the meadow, where Strawberry and Daisy, the meek-eyed Alderney cows, browsed at will over the sweet, juicy after-grass.

Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

Though fleet as the wind, I have seen many of the meek-eyed little fellows watch too long, and pay for their curiosity with their lives.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 Various

Then comes Law, with its whips and bonds, to chastise and tie up "the offending Adam" -- that is, the Adam without a pocket, -- and then the gentle violence of kindly Mother Church leads the poor man far from the fatal presence of his Gorgon wants, to consort him with meek-eyed Charity, -- to give him glimpses of the Land of

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 9, 1841 Various

He lived to greet the return of "meek-eyed peace," and then he gently laid his head upon her bosom, and breathed out there his noble spirit.

Oration on the Life and Character of Henry Winter Davis John A. J. Creswell