Verb (used with object) : a biting wind that bleared the vision. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : She was concerned about the recent blear in her vision. From Dictionary.com.
And if the blear-eyed Neoclides comes to insult you?. From Wordnik.com. [The Ecclesiazusae] Reference
It's the blear light of dawn after being up all night. From Wordnik.com. [Touch Of Grey] Reference
She had an ashen-gray face full of wrinkles, blear eyes, and red hair. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
How can otherwise blear eyes in one man cause the like affection in another?. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
He gazed with an open mouth and puzzled, blear eyes at the woman before him. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
But Lia was blear eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 01: Genesis The Challoner Revision] 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
Burglars are not all escaped convicts, blear eyed and hideous; nor do they all go about in fustian. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] 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
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
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
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
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
If he be crookbacked; or blear eyed; or have a pearl in his eye, or a continual scab, or a dry scurf in his body, or a rupture. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 03: Leviticus The Challoner Revision] 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
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
They had seen the old man as he was in death, pursued from room to room by two frightful hags, as gaunt, blear, sightless as himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
The batter will grow impatient and anxious, and unless his eyes are very strong the long strain in a bright light will blear his sight. From Wordnik.com. [Base-Ball How to Become a Player] 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
Jerome felt cheated, and snapped with more than his usual acidity at any who looked blear-eyed with sleep, or came yawning to the night-stairs. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose Rent]
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
Then looking over this mud stained, blear eyed, bloody nosed, ash dusted band of his confederates he began to chuckle at the battered and ludicrous composition. From Wordnik.com. [Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [Satyricon] 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
"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.". From Wordnik.com. [A Late Bloom From a Master] Reference
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