For no message is flashed from the lustreless eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain idylls, and Other Poems] Reference
He kept his black, lustreless eyes fixed continually on. From Wordnik.com. [The Possessed] Reference
Her lustreless eyes fixed themselves again on the fire. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
The sun hung low in the western sky, lustreless as a wafer, but ruddy. From Wordnik.com. [Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
She serves me my coffee in a pudgy cup and gives me a lustreless spoon. From Wordnik.com. [The Line] Reference
He bent over to look into her eyes, and found them fixed and lustreless. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860] Reference
The two students saw how dead and lustreless the eyes beneath had grown. From Wordnik.com. [Father Goriot] Reference
His eyes were lustreless; he raised them and looked slowly round the court. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference
She was of a middle size, serious and dark, with a mass of black lustreless hair. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
Porchon glanced at Lucien with lustreless eyes, and laid his pen down on the desk. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
To be explicit, use lustreless frames and faded colours with old furniture and tapestry. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
His Dark-dreamer's presence had diminished to a lustreless spark of his former vitality. From Wordnik.com. [Shadowfane]
He was pale, dishevelled, harassed; with lustreless eyes he scanned the crowd — horror!. From Wordnik.com. [The Double] Reference
Her strong white hands became thinner, her lustreless eyes and haggard face betrayed her. From Wordnik.com. [Red Pottage] Reference
'The child is in a lethargic condition, her hair is thin, sparse, lustreless, easily-pluckable. From Wordnik.com. [Should Indian Leaders Who Spend Billions on Submarines While Others Starve Go Unpunished?] Reference
After that she wears lustreless silks, trimmed with crape and jet, and goes to court if commanded. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
When the Cape of Good Hope was doubled, these Italian centres grew comparatively weak and lustreless. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
You know that men put gold through the fire to purge it of the dross that makes it dim and lustreless. From Wordnik.com. ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference
It opened full upon me its dull, glassy, lustreless eyes; stark, cold, and hideous it stood before me. From Wordnik.com. [Fifteen Years in Hell] Reference
The marble, the schist, the limestone, and the sandstone were giving way to a dark and lustreless lining. From Wordnik.com. [Journey to the Interior of the Earth] Reference
He was clean-shaved, big featured, and gifted with a pair of heavy-lidded eyes as lustreless as old buttons. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
His emaciated face with the lustreless eyes retained but one expression: submission to his fate and firmness. From Wordnik.com. [Virgin Soil] Reference
Her eyes were lustreless, and her hair was besprinkled with gray, and yet the right man did not offer himself. From Wordnik.com. [Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age] Reference
And what little light still remained scattered in the air concentrated on her fine fair hair, on her lustreless face. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
It was the last day of November, cool and crackling outside, with a lustreless sun peering bleakly in at the windows. From Wordnik.com. [The Beautiful and Damned] Reference
Her gown was a lustreless black silk, trimmed with gold and made as plain as her modiste would -- and the styles permitted. From Wordnik.com. [The Cab of the Sleeping Horse] Reference
A sleepless night had bruised the delicate skin beneath her eyes and the long fair hair hung lank and lustreless on her shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [No Laughing Matter]
In England a lady of the court wears, for her parent, crape and bombazine (or its equivalent in any lustreless cloth) for three months. From Wordnik.com. [Manners and Social Usages] Reference
Why, he was literally skin and bone, and his fur was dull and lustreless. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Road] Reference
The touchpad and left/right click rocker just below the keyboard are also lustreless black. From Wordnik.com. [The Globe and Mail - Technology RSS feed] Reference
The original 1991 version suffered from primitive recording and a generally lustreless sound. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Her hair was lustreless, snowy white, and beautifully, though simply, dressed in a bygone fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Old Rose and Silver] Reference
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