roving eye

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a roving eye (humorous)

if someone has a roving eye, they are sexually attracted to people other than their partner. She left her husband because she was fed up with his roving eye.

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His roving eye caught the position of my arm and he smiled askew. The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context Short was plying the quarter-staves vigorously and knocking the characters in the fury of the combat against the sides of the show, the people were looking on with laughing faces, and Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences. The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward became riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters. The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context More results

References in classic literature

His roving eye caught the position of my arm and he smiled askew.

The Island of Doctor Moreau by Wells, H.G. View in context

Short was plying the quarter-staves vigorously and knocking the characters in the fury of the combat against the sides of the show, the people were looking on with laughing faces, and Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.

The Old Curiosity Shop by Dickens, Charles View in context

At length they reached a point in the river where the roving eye of Heyward became riveted on a cluster of black objects, collected at a spot where the high bank threw a deeper shadow than usual on the dark waters.

The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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