eyeingly

comparative more eyeingly · superlative most eyeingly

1. rareIn an eyeing manner.

   At the present time, they are waiting patiently and eyeingly to see just who their opponent will be.

   1959 September 4, Joe Dolan, “Home Reporter Sports: Little League World Series Begins Monday”, in Bay Ridge Home Reporter, 7th year, number 3, Brooklyn, N.Y., page eight, column 2

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   It would seem that the devil employs all his energies in Rome at misrepresentation and falsehood, and eyeingly awaits a papal word as would a dog a bone from the table of his master.

   1909 May 20, “Pius X and Woman’s Duties”, in Catholic Union and Times, volume XXXVIII, number 8, Buffalo, N.Y.: The Buffalo Catholic Publication Company, page 4, column 2

   Montanan Has Speed, Endurance and Judge of Pace to Accomplish Feat, Mentor Believes; Deacon Gil Dodds Looks Eyeingly at Honor

   1942 June 23, “Rice Pointed To as Prospect for Long-Dreamed-of Mile Run in 4 Minutes: Jack Ryder, Veteran Coach Of Boston, Urges Test”, in Great Falls Tribune, 58th year, Great Falls, Mont., page 9, columns 1–2

   Jimmie felt like a snoop, and like one of the most vulgar sort, who, while enjoying the hospitality of your house, go about silently, eyeingly pricing the worth of everything, including your family relationships.

   1958, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, chapter 26, in A Gentleman Called (G.K. Hall Large Print Book Series), Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall & Co., published 1990, →ISBN, page 182

   ‘Let’s get the facts straight. If there’s any shilly-shallying about what they are, someone has to find out.’ / He thought for a moment and looked up eyeingly. ‘That might be a job, if ever there was one, for our friends in the United Nations.’

   1969, Ronald W[illiam] Clark, “Between War and Peace”, in The Last Year of the Old World: A Fiction of History, London: Jonathan Cape […], published 1970, →ISBN, part II (April–May 1946), page 155