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They might be Apaches or Comanches, deadly foes; or a tribe keeping up a friendly intercourse with the white men. At first I was doubtful in what direction they were going, but I was soon convinced that they were riding directly towards the spot where we lay, and that our chance of escape from their eagle-eyes was small indeed.
The eagle-eyes of a watchful and wary people, justly jealous of every measure of their oppressors, are not easily evaded. Their motions were observed, and such timely notice given, that such numbers were collected and such measures taken, before they arrived, as effectually frustrated their design and obliged them to return defeated and chagrined."
He stood at the door awaiting her, unwilling to leave his tent to go out to meet her, for fear of the thieving Bedouins that roam the desert, and who knew that his tent contained costly treasures." "Then you suppose Butheita will return to her father's to-day?" "I remained there until I saw her coming in the distance. The sheik's eagle-eyes recognized her in the dim distance.
He saw it all well enough he the man with the far-seeing mind and the eagle-eyes that missed nothing neither a look of indecision, nor an indication of revolt. He saw it all but he could do nothing, for he too felt overwhelmed by that wave of indecision and of discouragement. Faith in himself, energy in action, had gone. He envisaged the possibility of a vanquished and dismembered France.
Poor ol' Jabez, he was cast steel to the finish, no spring, just simply rigid an' stiff, till at last he broke. But runnin' the universe is no job for a human; every man would choose to look his best when he's to meet the one woman; but if Jabez had still been standin' like a rock an' lookin' out at the world through eagle-eyes the woman at the door wouldn't never have spoke to him.
Such torrents of invective as fell from his tongue; such flashes as gleamed from his gray eagle-eyes; such scorn as glowed in his thin, pallid lips, made every one tremble an avalanche that swept all before it. To toil, of some character or other, he seemed to be destined.
He wishes a battle; very well, let us fight. He turned his back to Prince Dolgorouki with a slight wave of his hand; and fixing his flaming eagle-eyes on his generals, he said, shrugging his shoulders: "Russia will make peace if France will give up Belgium, and, first of all things, cede the crown of Italy to the King of Sardinia.
Ah, my eagle-eyes, Judea, too, had its Jordan, and Damascus its Abana and Pharpar, and little Massachusetts its Merrimac, which, "poet-tuned, Goes singing down his meadows." But Judea did not type Damascus.
Thornburgh has eagle-eyes, she said, moving away to give her arm to her mother, who looked fondly at her, making some remark in praise of Mrs. Thornburgh's taste. 'Rose! cried Agnes indignantly, when the other two had disappeared, 'you and Mrs. Thornburgh have not the sense you were born with. What on earth did you say that to Catherine for? Rose stared; then her face fell a little.
They reminded him of Babette and of himself, and of his future happiness, and his heart glowed at the thought. "What beautiful things you have brought home!" said his old foster-mother; and her strange-looking eagle-eyes sparkled, while she wriggled and twisted her skinny neck more quickly and strangely than ever. "You have brought good luck with you, Rudy. I must give you a kiss, my dear boy."
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