The chief was alone with his blear-eyed wife, but a glance sufficed to tell Mackenzie that the news was already told. ❋ 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)
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)
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)
The Emperor grew more weak-legged and blear-eyed what of the ingenious deviltries devised for him by ❋ 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)
A blear-eyed ancient stood before him, balancing on a single crutch. ❋ 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)
But worst of all, a blear-eyed old hag, girded round with a filthy apron, and wearing wooden clogs which were not mates, dragged in an immense dog on a chain, and ❋ Unknown (2007)
They were stooping, blear-eyed, dull old men, slip-shod and shabby, in long-skirted short-waisted coats and meagre trousers, and yet with a ghost of gentility hovering in their company. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He will marry the daughter of rich parents, a red-haired, blear-eyed, big-mouthed, crooked-nosed wench. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Aesop was crooked, Socrates purblind, long-legged, hairy; Democritus withered, Seneca lean and harsh, ugly to behold, yet show me so many flourishing wits, such divine spirits: Horace a little blear-eyed contemptible fellow, yet who so sententious and wise? ❋ Unknown (2007)
I know, they that hold visio fit intra mittendo, will make a doubt of this; but Ficinus proves it from blear-eyes, [4957] That by sight alone, make others blear-eyed; and it is more than manifest, that the vapour of the corrupt blood doth get in together with the rays, and so by the contagion the spectators 'eyes are infected. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Trimalchio himself then favored us with an impersonation of a man blowing a trumpet, and when he had finished, he looked around for his minion, whom he called Croesus, a blear-eyed slave whose teeth were very disagreeably discolored. ❋ Unknown (2007)
