Citations:dry eye

English citations of dry eye

Noun : Someone who is not crying

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• 1719, Thomas Gordon - A modest apology for parson Alberoni, governor to king Philip page 29

  He dreſſes up the pretty Puppit fo amiably, all at the Coſt and Charges of hit own Fancy, and laments over it 16 movingly, that there is not a dry Eye, nor a dry Handkerchief, in the whole congregation

• December 12 1863, Charles Dickens - All the Year Round Volume X: From August 29. 1863, to February 6, 1864, page 366

  Then, having dried his clothes, they dressed the body again and laid him in the boat, and cast the Union Jack over him, and rowed slowly and unwillingly back to the ship, Georgie sobbing and screaming over the body, and not a dry eye in the boat.

• 1880, Mark Twain - Edward Mills and George Benton: A Tale

  I think there is a spectacle in store for you which not many in this house will be able to view with dry eyes

• 1928, Bertrand Russell - On the Value of Scepticism

  There was hardly a dry eye in the theatre, and the audience found the cruelty of the Greeks in the play hardly credible.

• 1995, w:Meat Loaf - Not a Dry Eye in the House

  Not a dry eye in the house

  After loves curtain comes down

  Listen and youll hear the sound

  Hear the sound of a heart breaking