| 释义 |
soft-eyed, a.
[soft a. 31.]
Having soft or gentle eyes; tender-eyed.
1735Pope Prol. Sat. 286 The verse..That tends to..Give..Innocence a fear, Or from the soft-eyed Virgin steal a tear! 1777Potter æschylus, Supplicants 109 Soft-ey'd Humanity dwells here. 1859Ld. Lytton Wanderer (ed. 2) 239 She is meekness itself, my soft-eyed little cousin. 1897Mamie Dickens My Father as I recall him 82 The latter, a soft-eyed, gentle, good-tempered St. Bernard. |