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Examples
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No, no you weren't, she's saying, her eyes cow-like but blood-shot.
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: When People Are Rude ... What Would Jesus Do? Logan Nakyanzi Pollard 2011
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Even the day the coyote took our precious dog, Sacheverell, I saw the red in his watery blood-shot eyes penetrating me from that mangy beast.
Archive 2009-07-01 ____Maggie 2009
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Still howling, disdaining doorways, with blood-shot eyes and wildly waving muscular arms, Victor burst upon us through the fragile walls.
Chapter 16 2010
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Even the day the coyote took our precious dog, Sacheverell, I saw the red in his watery blood-shot eyes penetrating me from that mangy beast.
The Tortilla Curtain (copy) ____Maggie 2009
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To South America, to China, to Africa, to Asia Minor, she turned like a hound quivering on the leash, impatient, suspicious, irritable, with blood-shot eyes and dripping fangs, ready for the awful word.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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First, the ancient high estate of Service, now pitifully fallen, yet gasping for breath; secondly, the present low estate of the outcasts of the world, peering with blood-shot eyes at the gates of the industrial heaven.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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And the internal "right between its blood-shot eyes" is Bob's judgment, tightening your POV and adding a personal closeness.
Re-Write Wednesday: Don't Tell Me Why Janice Hardy 2010
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Bob reached for the rifle and took aim at the zombie's head, right between its blood-shot eyes.
Re-Write Wednesday: Don't Tell Me Why Janice Hardy 2010
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"Bob reached for the rifle and took aim right between the zombie's blood-shot eyes."
Re-Write Wednesday: Don't Tell Me Why Janice Hardy 2010
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"Bob reached for the rifle and took aim at the zombie's head, right between its blood-shot eyes."
Re-Write Wednesday: Don't Tell Me Why Janice Hardy 2010
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