They would have been out of place in the bleak autumn blasts, and wan, colorless seasons of Acredale, where the sun, bleary and dim, furtively skirted the low horizon from November until April, as if ashamed to be identified with the glorious courser that rode the radiant summer sky.

All day he sits on his steps in the sun and peers through his bleary eyes across the mountains, and chuckles to himself like an old hen.

An' didn't I square with him by takin' what I wanted?" "Gold?" The old dry cackle answered the question; the bleary eyes were bright with cunning.

Presently, however, the persistent whistle conjured from round a corner a rakish hansom thatlike the creature between its shafts and the driver on its lofty box, with his face in full bloom and his bleary eyes, his double-breasted box-coat and high hat of oilclothhad doubtless been brisk with young ambition in the golden time of the Nineteen-Naughties.

Bottles of soda-water ostentatiously displayed upon his table might have suggested what his bleary eye and shaky hands belied.

I was more than a little bleary-eyed, but I endeavoured, as far as the fact that my eyelids were more or less glued together would permit, to give her an austere and censorious look.

All that amounts to a somewhat rebellious action for a bleary-eyed television viewer.

The thought of this, and of French Pete in his bleary sleep below, marred the beauty of the day.

Kelley's eyes, which were somewhat bleary, bulged with greed as he saw Browning count out the money.

They had anticipated certain words in greeting, a certain look out of bleary, shifty eyes, but neither materialized.

In a red T-shirt and bermudas, with a red ribbon around his head and a glass of feni in hand, a wobbly Rajan Narayan with bleary eyes was quite a spectacle.

Between them they awoke Cleofonte, who lumbered to his feet and stared about with bleary eyes.

Tommy woke a famous man, and, except Elspeth, no one was more pleased than big-hearted, hopeless, bleary Pym.

Thereafter for a full year, he looked carefully out of his bleary, drunken eyes and chose a smaller objective before he charged.

He was a very big, large-boned hound, gray with age and wrinkled and lame, and bleary-eyed.

There was no denying that he was coarse and dull and awkward, but there was a shrewd gleam in his somewhat bleary eyes, and from time to time he threw out dark hints about enjoyments and experiences that little boys clinging to their mother's skirts could never master.

And he was quite aware, and never more so, of his bleary-eyed, forbidding appearance.

I did not feel safe with that bulky packet of papers on me, and I felt that Theodore's bleary eyes were perpetually fixed upon the bulge in the left-hand side of my coat.

I took no notice of him, however, even though, as I walked past him, I saw that he opened one bleary eye and watched my every movement.

" He made no demur about giving me the five hundred francs, but half my pleasure in receiving them vanished when I saw Theodore's bleary eyes fixed ravenously upon them.

"And your lodger, is he an ugly, slouchy creaturewith hooked nose, bleary eyes and shaggy yellow hair?"