The man was talking, she comprehended, but to her his words seemed blurred and indistinguishable.

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.

The blurred, dark figures of men who sat upon the load cut against the fan-shaped beam, and in the background he saw a shower of leaping sparks.

The gloom outside and the blurred lights in the fog gave the excursion a touch of romantic adventure.

Still she could not lift her blurred eyes, nor could she check her trembling.

Progressively the real things of life were blurred and forgotten and the things that were so obviously real that they were unreal became the object and the measure of achievement.

But it is hardest of all in the crisis of a great war, when men's minds are blurred by passionate emotions of sorrow, anxiety, and indignation.

They have sought to record the full sum of his personality, and finding the subject elude them, as the translation of actions into words must ever fall short of finality, they have overloaded their narrative with minutest and almost always apocryphal details which leave the main outlines blurred.

He recited the story of last night's dinner, of his experience in the cafe, of his few blurred impressions of the swaying vehicle and the woods.

" Then the room blurred before her eyes.

The sky was a sheet of spotless blue; every rift and scar of the distant hills was retouched with a firmer pencil, and all the outlines, blurred away by the haze of the previous few days, were restored with wonderful distinctness.

The day was bleak and wet, and the high moors that shut in the little town loomed, blurred and forbidding, through drifting mist.

It was as though he looked at it all through a rain-blurred pane, against which his hand would strike if he held it out to her...

The sharp edges of the individual trees faded and blended, the trunks blurred.

It is only the head that can be used, as more distant parts, even the ears, become blurred hopelessly.

" Chase stuffed the blurred, sticky letter into his pocket and arose to stretch himself.

As she read it the lines blurred before her eyes.

And the dangers of the street corners, the horses looming up suddenly out of the dark, the carters with lanterns at their horses' heads, the street lamps, blurred, smoky orange at one's nearest, and vanishing at twenty yards into dim haze, seemed to accentuate the infinite need of protection on the part of a delicate young lady who had already traversed three winters of fogs, thornily alone.

Without knowing it the listeners were on their feet, clutching each other with tense fingers, their eyes blurred with tears, their throats aching with emotion, their hearts burning to perform deeds of valor for their country, to fight to the last ditch, to die as heroes for their native land.

In these clippings he saw portraits of Freya, a hard and blurred likeness which he could recognize only by her name underneath.

I had withdrawn my gaze so suddenly from the glow of the light in the cabin that for several moments the intruder from out of the sea was only a blurred form with one leg hung over the rail, where he hung as if spent by his exertions.

It is now certain that the Government has decided to reinforce Major Andersen's command at all hazards" The lines in the Evening Post blurred under his eyes; he passed one broad, bony hand across them, straightened his shoulders, and, setting the unlighted cigar firmly between his teeth, composed himself to read.

When she arose to speak, the sea of faces before her seemed blurred.

The whole may be compared to a photograph of which a part is blurred.

Only the sea was occasionally flecked with racing sails that outstripped the old, slow-creeping trader, or was at times streaked and blurred with the trailing smoke of a steamer.