And if the blear-eyed Neoclides comes to insult you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ecclesiazusae] Reference
A blear-eyed ancient stood before him, balancing on a single crutch. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 2] Reference
But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete] Reference
The blear-eyed Governor made me a compliment, with a wrinkled hand upon his heart. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
The bald-headed, the dwarfed, and the blear-eyed are ineligible for the priesthood. From Wordnik.com. [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference
A pale blear-eyed bundle of resentment peered up at the newcomers from a basket chair. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
These were undoubtedly genuine ruffians of the worst type, hungry, blear-eyed and ragged. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School The Merry Doings of the Oakdale Freshmen Girls] Reference
Sleepy grooms rose, blear-eyed, to take the horses of their English guests, a company of twenty men. From Wordnik.com. [A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old] Reference
The Emperor grew more weak-legged and blear-eyed what of the ingenious deviltries devised for him by. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 15] Reference
Not the ardent chigger nor the blear-eyed philosopher prone beneath his midnight oils and watercolors. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
So no one sees the great light shining from Heaven, -- for the people are blear-eyed, and Saul is blinded. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
For Environmentalism to prevail amongst human cultures we will need to shuck off these sorts of blear-eyed muddle. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
The Doctor obeyed, and in answer to the summons an old, wrinkled, blear-eyed hag made her appearance with the liquor. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
He sketched the horses, he sketched the dogs; all the servants from the blear-eyed boot-boy to the rosy-cheeked lass. From Wordnik.com. [The Newcomes] Reference
A blear-eyed, unsteady individual, whom Bart recognized as a member of the Sharp Corner contingent, advanced to the table. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
She was blear-eyed, and her skin, which seemed drawn tight over her forehead and cheek-bones, was of the colour of parchment. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference
They sat down together on the floor, and she patted Frona's hand lovingly, peering, meanwhile, blear-eyed and misty, into her face. From Wordnik.com. [CHAPTER 2] Reference
The next moment the door was rudely shaken, and then Jim staggered into the room, haggard, blear-eyed, muttering to himself savagely. From Wordnik.com. [Nearly Lost but Dearly Won] Reference
‘Are ye making fun of us, ye English puppy?’ said the blear-eyed lad; ‘take that!’ and I was presently beaten black and blue. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro] Reference
We would watch for him to emerge bearded and blear-eyed in the early afternoon as if we were waiting for an old owl to land near his nest. From Wordnik.com. [Summer of Deliverance] Reference
St. James -- patent of nobility; had it not been for that and his fine attire he might have passed for a blear-eyed and decrepit tailor from. From Wordnik.com. [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference
Weary, blear-eyed, unsteady on his limbs, he finally lay down on a bench in the hotel sitting room and was awakened only by the breakfast bell. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Author! Author! » 2009 » June] Reference
Obj. 2: Further, Gregory says (Hom. xiv in Ezech.) that the "active life being occupied with work, sees less," wherefore it is signified by Lia who was blear-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [THE WHITE MAN'S WAY] Reference
Blake stared up at him, blear-eyed with overstudy and loss of sleep. From Wordnik.com. [Out of the Primitive] Reference
'Are ye making fun of us, ye English puppy?' said the blear-eyed lad. From Wordnik.com. [Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest] Reference
He was thinking of the slovenly, blear-eyed woman who had brought him into the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
David had always thought of him as the bullying, bloated giant, purple-faced and blear-eyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose in the Ring] Reference
Untidy women and blear-eyed men leaned over the dilapidated fences, or lolled on mud-tracked doorsteps. From Wordnik.com. [Just David] Reference
In going up to the water two of the horses again fell and hurt themselves, but the old blear-eyed mare never slipped or fell. From Wordnik.com. [Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,] Reference
Such as you see me, old, bald, blear-eyed, rheumy, they delighted to do me honour; happy was the man on whom my glance rested a moment. From Wordnik.com. [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference
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