love-eye

Updated: July 28, 2025

Ay, just as the eyes of a person who squints: when her love-eye was fixed on me, t'other her eye of duty was finely obliqued: but when duty bade her point that the same way, off turned t'other on a swivel, and secured its retreat with a frown."

Thomas Moore - Memoirs of the Life of the Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan — Volume 01