What is "eyeing"

Usage examples of "eyeing".

Cassandra had removed her train and veil and took a seat next to her new husband, eyeing the crowds as they nodded and smiled at her.

Grabbing Jemmy round the middle, she pulled him down from the table, where he had been eyeing the jar with greedy curiosity.

He rubbed a finger slowly up and down the bridge of his nose, eyeing Arch.

Jamie drew breath to reply, but then stopped, eyeing the old man narrowly.

He could see Bird eyeing the girl thoughtfully, quite obviously regretting that he had let her go for so little.

She hesitated a moment longer, eyeing him narrowly, estimating the odds.

Still eyeing me speculatively, the Governor nodded toward a straight-backed chair and a smaller desk at the side of the room.

He paused for breath, eyeing Jamie closely to assess the effect of his speech.

Jamie, compelled by his own sense of propriety, but eyeing the Major with deep suspicion, invited him in.

He was still eyeing me with an air of appraisal, as though I were a prime entrant in the Silver Medalist Round at the Shropshire Fat Pigs Show.

Brianna thought, eyeing Jemmy with some trepidation as she envisioned the future.

She stooped and picked it up, eyeing the half-dissolved object with distaste.

Bug bent down, eyeing the strip of red peel with her head on one side, like a robin sizing up a likely worm.

I said, eyeing his coat, which was velvet, rose in color, and had six-inch cuffs of palest pink silk and button-covers embroidered with scarlet peonies.

Doctor Fentiman had swung round, and was eyeing me with the same sort of suspicious interest with which I was viewing him.