Blear

Then How-ha's eyes went blear as she traversed the simple windings of her own brain, inspecting the bare shelves taciturnly stored with the impressions of a meagre life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But my poor blear eyes like a bat's, startled me at my shadow on the flagstones. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The Emperor grew more weak-legged and blear-eyed what of the ingenious deviltries devised for him by ❋ Unknown (2010)

The chief was alone with his blear-eyed wife, but a glance sufficed to tell Mackenzie that the news was already told. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A blear-eyed ancient stood before him, balancing on a single crutch. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed. ❋ Unknown (2010)

(London received $530 for this story on August 14, 1905.) "TO cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They sat down together on the floor, and she patted Frona's hand lovingly, peering, meanwhile, blear-eyed and misty, into her face. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In "The White Man's Way" (New York Tribune Sunday Magazine, November 4, 1906), Old Ebbits, "blear-eyed and vacuous," and his wife Zilla ( "no more bitter-tongued, implacable old squaw dwelt on the Yukon") are visited by a white man who shares his moose meat, tea and tobacco with them. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Sleepy grooms rose, blear-eyed, to take the horses of their English guests, a company of twenty men. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As my sister-in-law put it only this weekend upon seeing me still blear-eyed from 13-hour days of writing and lingering jet lag, Oh, five weeks in France. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"Labour is blossoming or dancing where/The body is not bruised to pleasure soul,/Nor beauty born out of its own despair,/Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil." ❋ Jim Zinsmeister (2009)

If the alien scientists can study living specimens, not just archaeological relics, what will they make of fragile, highly strung racehorses and greyhounds, of snuffling bulldogs who can scarcely breathe and can't be born without Caesarian assistance, of blear-eyed Pekinese baby surrogates, of walking udders such as Friesian cows, walking rashers such as Landrace pigs, or walking woolly jumpers such as Merino sheep? ❋ James F. McGrath (2008)

Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he's furiously devising new ways to blear our view of Barack Obama. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

"Meanwhile, behind the scenes, he's furiously devising new ways to blear our view of Barack Obama." ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

The argument of records being broken because of steroid is ludicrous and an example of blear-witted, hebetudinous, thinking, and superstition, fed by bigotry to overcome education and science. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[Cjs]. are the [leading] cause of [blears]. ❋ ThePAULICY (july, 2009) (2008)

"Hey [Vera], can't chat now as I am off to [get me] Hazel Blears done. [I will be] back in an hour!" ❋ Liam Billington (2008)

Whose that coming out of Tricky Dickys? -Why it's Hazel Blears! -She probably goes there Tuesday nights too (and makes it past security)... Hazel had a dilemma: The background colouring on her pol-pot poster didn't [go next] to [Idi Amin], but she couldn't fit it in her 'Hitler Shrine'. [The bust] of Dick Cheney took up far too much room... ❋ Person??? (2007)

Ugh I just [kept] [rubbing] and rubbing my eyes this morning and the blear wouldn't [wipe] away. ❋ OldYonker (2022)