eyen

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen.”

“But well are thine eyen set⟳ in thy head, wide apart, well opened, […]”

“Yea, ’t is true; I ’d know⟳ thee by thine eyen, that are gray, and thoughtful, and dark with a something that lies behind the colour of them,—and shining by the light⟳ of a lamp lit somewhere within.”

“Sweet and benign mediatrix, / Thine eyen of grace on us thou cast⟳, / Since thou art queen of paradise, / And let⟳ not our hope⟳ be in waste⟳, / But show⟳ us thy Son at the last⟳, / Since we do sing⟳ and say⟳ to thee, ‘Maria, spes nostra, salue.’”

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