Citations:saucer-eyed


 * 1852 — Charles Dickens, "Lying Awake", Household Words, Volume 6, Number 136, 30 October 1852:
 * I performed the whole ceremony, and if it were possible for me to be more saucer-eyed than I was before, that was the only result that came of it.
 * 1891 — Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Chapter XLVIII:
 * By degrees the freshest among them began to grow cadaverous and saucer-eyed.
 * 1981 — Salman Rushdie, Midnight's Children, Random House Digital, ISBN 9780307744111, page 330:
 * On May 15th, 1974, Major Shiva returned to his regiment in Delhi; he claimed that, three days later, he was suddenly seized by a desire to see once more the saucer-eyed beauty whom he had first encountered long ago in the conference of the Midnight Children;
 * 1985 — Sharyn McCrumb, Lovely in Her Bones, Ballantine Books (1985), ISBN 9780307761224, page 95:
 * She looked at him saucer-eyed, then began to smile.
 * 1991 — Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against Women, Crown Publishers (1991), ISBN 9780517576984, page 42:
 * The cover picture featured a frightened, saucer-eyed child sucking his thumb.
 * 1993 — Tad Williams, To Green Angel Tower, Part II, Daw Books (1993), ISBN 9781101142233, page 354:
 * The saucer-eyed creature looked mournful. He made a melodious sound and one of the other dwarrows stepped forward with a stone bowl.
 * 1996 — William Gibson, Idoru, Berkley Books (2003), ISBN 1101158050, page 16:
 * Kelsey's father was a Houston tax lawyer, something of his particular species of biz-speak tending to enter his daughter around meeting time; also a certain ability to wait that Chia found irritating, particularly as manifested by a saucer-eyed nymph-figure out of some old anime.
 * 1996 — Frederik L. Schodt, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga, Stone Bridge Press (1996), ISBN 188065623X, page 155:
 * To the average male, stories for girls often seem to feature nothing but pretty, leggy, saucer-eyed heroines in saccharine plots, endlessly falling desperately in love or staring wistfully into space; sometimes it seems that manga for adult women are only a more mature variant of the same, with the addition of sex.
 * 2000 — Steven Heighton, The Shadow Boxer, Mariner Books (2002), ISBN 0618139338, page 56:
 * The panicked apostles jammed in around Him seemed far too small, a tubful of toddlers, and Christ's face was botched too, saucer-eyed as if with fear, His upturned palms seeming to signal not benediction but a shrug of defeat.
 * 2000 — John Wray, The Right Hand of Sleep, Vintage Books (2002), ISBN 0375706402, page 17:
 * I stared saucer-eyed at everything around me, as though at any minute I'd be found out and ordered back to school.
 * 2002 — John Banville, Shroud, Vintage International (2004), ISBN 037572530X, page 148:
 * She looked so sorrowful and solemn, saucer-eyed Monique, and the pink-tinged air outside was so still, so coldly lovely, that I could only nod and say nothing, trying not to laugh.
 * 2006 — Max Lucado, The Christmas Candle, Thomas Nelson (2006), ISBN 9781595541475, page 58:
 * He was a stark contrast to the worshippers — they, gleeful and warm; he, saucer-eyed and freezing.
 * 2009 — Philip Reeve, No Such Thing As Dragons, Scholastic (2010), ISBN 9780545222242, page 36:
 * The village children gaped saucer-eyed at the newcomers.