Looked through him with blank unseeing eyes. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The difficulty with "unseeing," as here, is that it so often appears to happen just a little too late. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Professor:] Reference
Blank faces stared ahead of them with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [En Pointe] Reference
The open eyes are looking straight before them, unseeing. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
Darrell gazed out of the window again with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [At the Time Appointed] Reference
Marjorie was staring out of the window with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
Actually his eyes were unseeing, there was nothing to see. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
Meditative, he looked straight before him with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Drew changed the subject quickly to break that unseeing stare. From Wordnik.com. [Rebel Spurs] Reference
His eyes were not closed, but were as unseeing as a blind man's. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
The Earthling looked off, unseeing, into a far corner of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
Very still it lay, with set white face and wide-open, unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Plantation Sketches] Reference
She sat staring out with unseeing eyes, remorseful and sick at heart. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Problem] Reference
They were unseeing, unthinking eyes, the eyes of nightthings that fly. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
Katherine walked to a window and stood staring out with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Line War] Reference
He set his teeth and stared at the frozen landscape with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the East] Reference
She would look at me with unseeing eyes, scarcely answering my questions. From Wordnik.com. [Teaching A Child, Changing A Life] Reference
In the hallway she stopped and stared at the wall for an unseeing moment. From Wordnik.com. [Prudence Says So] Reference
The hurrying feet pass by, the unseeing eyes grow more and more careless. From Wordnik.com. [Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters] Reference
David had looked with unseeing eyes, and smiled with uncomprehending assent. From Wordnik.com. [Marcia Schuyler] Reference
But her eyes had something of the fixed, unseeing stare of the sleep-walker. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
She panted as if she had been running, and her eyes had a far-away, unseeing look. From Wordnik.com. [The Sheik] Reference
She rested her elbows on her knees and gazed with unseeing eyes at the meadowland below. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
Then slowly, and with oddly unseeing eyes, he began clearing away the débris of the meal. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
He was as one lost in thought, his eyes open but unseeing, observing but not interpreting. From Wordnik.com. [The Short Life] Reference
Simon turned his back on Friar Mathieu and stared out, almost unseeing, toward the window. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
I turned away to the window and looked down once more into the courtyard with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
He faced about, drearily enough, and stood with downcast, unseeing eyes, in anxious pondering. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
You gather their faces in the palms of your hands and their purple eyes blink, blink, unseeing. From Wordnik.com. [Non-Self: Light, Dark] Reference
"I wonder if it's really true," he thought, staring with unseeing eyes at the scenes around him. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Shark] Reference
Marjorie watched with unseeing eyes the angular form of the teacher as she retreated to her platform. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie Dean, High School Freshman] Reference
His face was frozen in a fierce, unseeing stare as he mentally screamed at his eyes to see, see, see!. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
I remember their hollow stares, the tenants peering with their unseeing eyes from behind their thresholds. From Wordnik.com. [The Door] Reference
For a long while Dennis sat with the letter in his hand, gazing, with unseeing eyes, upon its eccentric chirography. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
What was more, I had a horrible persuasion that, though unseeing, I was seen; that my every movement was being watched. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
Then, feeling that all was indeed at an end, she cast around her a surprised glance of her unseeing eyes, and went slowly away. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
An expression of deep sadness crept into her face as she uttered these words, and she looked past her callers with unseeing eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School] Reference
The father like the daughter was tall and slender, with the same dark blue eyes, although his had a strange unseeing look in them. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp] Reference
The Frenchwoman was lying limp and still in the middle of her low, gilded bed, gazing with unseeing eyes at the rose canopy above. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
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