"roving eye" meaning in English

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          "text": "His roving eye traveled around the room, and, resting upon the three guests, became inflamed.",
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        "(idiomatic) Wide-ranging observation of one's surroundings."
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          "ref": "1909, Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Purgatorio, Canto 32",
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