"roving eye" meaning in English

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          "text": "Mr Codlin had relaxed into a grim smile as his roving eye detected hands going into waistcoat pockets and groping secretly for sixpences.",
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          "ref": "1916, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 9, in The Hunters of the Hills:",
          "text": "His roving eye traveled around the room, and, resting upon the three guests, became inflamed.",
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          "text": "Like Jimmy Breslin, a writer he was often compared to, he turned his roving eye to ordinary Southerners overlooked by most writers and mined the inexhaustible vein of human experience.",
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        "(idiomatic) Wide-ranging observation of one's surroundings."
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          "ref": "1858, Thomas Bulfinch, chapter 4, in Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry:",
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          "ref": "1909, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Purgatorio, Canto 32:",
          "text": "But because she her wanton, roving eye\nTurned upon me, her angry paramour\nDid scourge her from her head unto her feet.",
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          "ref": "2001 April 21, Ellin Martens, “People: Beauty and the Bombshells”, in Time, retrieved 2018-03-21:",
          "text": "Miss Israel . . . plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. . . . The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump.",
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          "text": "Miss Israel . . . plans to wear a bulletproof gown created by Tel Aviv designer Galit Levi. . . . The heavy-duty 2001 creation could also keep Miss Israel safe from the roving eye of pageant director Donald Trump.",
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