47 collocations for blur

In clear air we must have had a wonderful prospect, but the mist hung close around us, the drizzle blurred our eyes, and the most we saw was a yard or two of grey vapour.

Understand me, sir?" Joseph Wegg looked into the little man's round face until the tears filled his own eyes and blurred his vision.

If we desire the attention to fall upon some general idea we only blur its outlines by using words that call up particulars.

She went up-stairs to her Bible, whose blurred, dim pages she had thought closed to her forever, and she could read as well as ever, and without glasses!

Brushing away the mist which for a moment blurred his sight, Callandar kissed the picture gently and shut the case.

And if my stocking hung too high, Would it blur the Christmas glee, That not a Santa Claus could reach The altitude of me?

A thick haze of smoke from the bursting shells blurred the picture.

It was a true October night, raw and cold, with a white fog crawling over the wet, shining cobblestones, and blurring the dim oil-lamps.

No procession of events trod down or blurred her perfect impressions of the earth and sky.

Not a speck of vapor blurred the spotless crystal of the sky, as I walked along the hanging paths of the Alameda.

Use only the best of oil, one gallon of which is worth five gallons of cheap stuff and do far better service, as inferior grades not only clog the lubricator but chokes the ducts and blurs the sight-glass, etc., and the refuse of such oil will accumulate in the cylinder sufficiently to cause damage and loss of power, far exceeding the difference in cost of good oil over the cheap grades.

From the distant sea had come a breath of air, cool enough to be felt with gratitude, yet so faint as neither to disturb the dry pulsation of myriad insect-voices, nor to blur the square mirrors of distant rice-fields, still tropically blue or icy with reflected clouds.

Heat waves blurred the hollow and pushed Sour Creek away until it seemed a river of mistyellow mist.

It was only a haze, but it blurred the horizon so that at first they could not see the vessel.

"Something on the surface of the mirror interposed between my eye and the reflection, slightly blurring the image.

Afterwards, however, if you go on repeating each other, what do you do but blur the individuality of the original masterpiecesthough," pursued Gerard, laughing, always ready to forget his original argument in the seductiveness of an unexpected development of it, "though, after all, I admit, there might be a temptation sometimes to improve upon the originals.

She leaned back against McGinty's notice, and blurred still more the smudged intention "by virtue of the statue.

This is the general rule, though it is by no means wholly the sex line that divides the old-fashioned houseworker from the specialized professional, though this habitual difference in standing between groups of different sex does tend to blur fundamental issues.

As yet no shadows blur the magic light, The glamour that surrounds the opening date.

Because a portrait is drawn in neutral tints, it does not follow that it is therefore faithful, and those writers who seem to think they must reconcile the fact of Tiberius having been so good a man with his having been, as they assert, so bad a citizen, have blurred the likeness in their anxiety about the chiaroscuro.

Mooka beside him was watching a faint cloud of mist, the breath of caribou, that blurred at times the dark tree-line in the distance, when one of those mysterious warnings that befall the hunter in the far North rested upon them suddenly like a heavy hand.

He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margent with interpretations and load the memory with doubtfulnesse: but hee commeth to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-inchaunting skill of Musicke; and with a tale forsooth he commeth unto you: with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney-corner.

Who blurs fair paper with foul bastard rhymes, Shall live full many an age in latter times: Who makes a ballad for an alehouse door, Shall live in future times for evermore: Then ( ) thy muse shall live so long, As drafty ballads to thy praise are sung.

Gently he touched the darkened streak where her shoulders had rubbed and blurred the newspaper print.

Shadow after shadow crept down the walls of the chasm, blurred its projections, darkened its faces, and crowded its recesses.

47 collocations for  blur