"Dull-eyed" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... made a soft and dull-eyed fool To shake the head, relent, and sigh, and yield." - "Merchant ...
— A Rebellious Heroine • John Kendrick Bangs
... popularly regarded as an illiterate, whiskey-drinking, shiftless, irreligious race of people—the first named, the chief subject of this biography, being unanimously voted the laziest and most worthless of the generation. From the age of twelve to twenty years he is distinctly remembered as a dull-eyed, flaxenhaired, prevaricating boy noted only for his indolent and vagabondish character, and his habits of exaggeration and untruthfulness. Taciturnity was among his characteristic idiosyncrasies, and he seldom ...
— The Story of the Mormons: • William Alexander Linn
... surroundings," he went on, "and it is meaningless. The dull-eyed men and women that wander through this Museum of yours are just killing time. There's no education in that kind of thing. Besides, what they see are dead things, anyway, and you can't study human nature in ...
— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various
... town near which I pass my summers, a large stone, fallen from a passing dray, lay for days in the middle of the principal street, until I paid some boys to remove it. No one cared, and the dull-eyed inhabitants would doubtless be looking at it still but ...
— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory
... excursion was on foot, he thought. As he stepped on the platform, a great cheer was raised and a dozen men swept toward him, friends, personal and political, but when they saw him pale, thin, lean-faced, feverish, dull-eyed, the cheers stopped and two powerful fellows took him by the arms and half carried him to the station-door, where were waiting his mother—and ...
— Crittenden - A Kentucky Story of Love and War • John Fox, Jr. |
