So, "by way of getting even," he made violent love to all the pretty eyes he met in his commercial travels-"to have something to think about after he should have found favor in the strabismic optics of Miss Mercer," he observed, disrespectfully.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
He attempted to obtain his bearings by wandering about looking for a small rococo reception-room where he remembered he had once talked kennel talk with Marion Page, and had on another occasion perspired freely under the arrogant and strabismic glare of her mother.
"The Fighting Chance"
Robert W. Chambers