Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the fresh, bright eyes or look of youth.

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Examples

  •   And young-eyed Lewdness walks her midnight rounds:

    Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 2007

  • There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still choiring to the young-eyed cherubins.

    Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

  • "Nancy must be joking," thought Judith as she tried to decide why the cherubims were "young-eyed."

    Judy of York Hill Ethel Hume Bennett

  • "I will make these young-eyed maidens immortal," said the Sagalie Tyee.

    Canadian Cities of Romance 1922

  • Even the young-eyed cherubim, choiring on meadows of asphodel, might cease their harping for a time to listen to a tale of the vanished earth, told by that golden tongue.

    The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911

  • Then the Sagalie Tyee smiled on His Indian children: 'I will make these young-eyed maidens immortal,' He said.

    Legends of Vancouver 1911

  • Even the young-eyed cherubim, choiring on meadows of asphodel, might cease their harping for a time to listen to a tale of the vanished earth, told by that golden tongue.

    The Story Girl 1908

  • It is as if the pearly gates had been opened for a brief interval to let the earth hear the "quiring of the young-eyed cherubims."

    Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

  • He was beautiful again, radiant and young-eyed as the choiring cherubim.

    A Woman Named Smith Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • I'll make sure there isn't any young-eyed cherubin business about David.

    The Iron Woman Margaret Wade Campbell Deland 1901

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