Meaning of light of one's eye | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One's beloved.
   figuratively
2. The way in which one's eyes sparkle with joy and life.
   figuratively

Examples

“Mohammad Reza was his father's love — the light of his eye, as the Persian saying goes.”

“Simeti, the bright light of his eye, had perished in the fire and smoke and thunder. And bitterest of all was that he, Songiterr, had sent him to his dreadful, fiery doom.”

“The Princes are my sons and the light of my eye.”

“We look'd for the youth of the sunny glance, Whose step was the fleetest in the chase or dance! The light of his eye was a joy to see,”

“The regularity of his features, and the light of his eye, presented a countenance worthy of the chisel of Praxitiles.”

“Tecumseh listened with a gloomy kind of submission; the playful animation of childhood no longer gladdened his countenance; the joyous light of his eye was quenched, and a settled shade rested on those features, that were wont to beam with pleasure.”

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