dim-eyed

He sees many of the faces he knew from his younger days--older, white-haired, dim-eyed, wrinkled--much like his own.

A Cinema Paradiso Moment 2009

He sees many of the faces he knew from his younger days--older, white-haired, dim-eyed, wrinkled--much like his own.

Archive 2009-07-01 2009

And she was still dim-eyed with her just departed slumber and the brightness of the morning sunlight, and she scarce knew whether it were a part of a dream, or

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

The business was carried on by her niece, Vassilissa, and her husband, the red-haired, dim-eyed baker, Demofont.

A Desperate Character 2006

I figure this dim-eyed young mountaineer, sunburnt, gaunt, and anxious, hat brim clutched feverishly, a man all unused to the ways of the lower world, telling this story to some keen-eyed, attentive priest before the great convulsion; I can picture him presently seeking to return with pious and infallible remedies against that trouble, and the infinite dismay with which he must have faced the tumbled vastness where the gorge had once come out.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006

Our services were given by a vicar named Dr. Foster, a tall, dim-eyed, white-haired man, thin as a rail, who muttered and murmured mildly for his sermons, and who managed to make even the most interesting Bible stories into boring digressions into abstract theology or Trinitarian speculations.

Orphans of Chaos 2005

He was reading, and he only smiled into his book, and said that if Miss Keeldar was no more than that, she was less than he took her to be; for I was but a dim-eyed, shortsighted little chap. I'm afraid I am a poor unfortunate, Miss Caroline

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

Was that not a footstep? ... the step of one who might come feeling his way ... dim-eyed with regret?

Australia Felix 2003

Traders 'sons can often see what their dim-eyed fathers cannot.

Ship Of Destiny Hobb, Robin 2000

Then I joined 30 other dim-eyed people in the lobby, and we all shifted from foot to foot while the pilot of our LC-130 turboprop, a ski-equipped Hercules, barked out the drill for the eight-hour flight.

Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996