In both cases he finds dulled distinctions.

A glance back at the Concise group above will show you that with time the comparison which was once the basis and the life of the figurative use of words is dulled, obscured, even lost.

The men's eyes ached and the intolerable sun pierced their double hats and dulled their brains.

The girls were still regarded with curious looks when they wandered into the village on an errand, and Mr. Merrick and Major Doyle inspired a certain amount of awe; but time had dulled the edge of marvelous invasion and the city people were now accepted as a matter of course.

His bodily senses are dulled and wearied, but a phenomenal acuteness has come to those perceptions so hard of definitionpartly mental, partly psychological.

Many a wife goes down to her grave a dulled and dispirited woman simply because her good and faithful husband has lived by her side without talking to her!

I do not know what profit there is in literature like that, but I do know that the devil has not lost anything, because through this channel flows a river of mud and poison, and the moral sense became so dulled that finally they tolerated such books which a few decades ago would have brought the author to court.

I see your Alps above me cut The dark, cold sky,and dim and lone I see ye sitting, stone on stone, With human senses dulled and shut.

The navy is manned after this pattern; but there is a touchstone which sharpens the edge dulled with routine,the touchstone of war.

She woke dulled and bewildered.

But yet they are no more the same; they are dulled, and neither trouble nor disquiet me.

He who lends wings of hope, while secretly He spreads a traitorous snare by the wayside, Hath dulled the flame of love, and mortified Friendship where friendship burns most fervently.

His sensibilities had been so dulled.

Cake managed to keep two rooms of the wretched flat, and no word of his landlady's demise reached the lodger's drink-dulled ears.

The flawless lustre of his shoes would be dulled, even though he walked sedately the safe sidewalk; his broad collar and blue polka-dotted cravat would be awry, one stocking would be down, his jacket yawning, all his magnificence seeming unconquerably alien.

Then he looked up, and low in the sky he surprisingly beheld the moon, an orb of pale bronze dulled from its night shine.

The golden-hued shadow dims in the dawn of his married life, dulled with content, and the shadow vanishes.

The haughty king walked on the terrace heights of Babylon, and, beneath the calm splendor of an Assyrian sky, voiced the complacent feeling which dulled his sense of dependence upon Godas the perfumes of the East lull into waking-slumber the faculties of the soul.

No ChanceNo Hope] "If she have sent her servants in our pain, If she have fought with Death and dulled his sword, If she have given back our sick again And to the breast the weakling lips restored, Is it a little thing that she has wrought?

The mill's noise had forced talkers to lift their voices, and it now half dulled the clamp of habitante shoes below, and the whining of children longing again for sleep.

He had taken to carnal repasts with the eagerness of a crotchety man affected with a depraved appetite and given to sudden hungers, whose taste is quickly dulled and surfeited.

Decidedly, the Ethiopic black, the harsh Sienna tone of this shell dulled the rug's reflections without adding to it.

She more energetically awakened the dulled senses of man, more surely bewitched and subdued his power of will, with the charm of a tall venereal flower, cultivated in sacrilegious beds, in impious hothouses.

Straight towards him it came, and the lightning was dulled by its nearness and the thunder hushed.

She was tired, and was dulled by the daily routine of trying to get food.