If ever you saw a face more haggard than other faces, it was his.
Eliza used to be very pretty, and was young-looking still, with smooth brown hair, and mild grey eyes: she looked very haggard now and less tidy.
Sweet, indeed, it was still; but the bloom and freshness had given place to a haggard look, and to dark circles round the soft brown eyes, weary now.
He started up from his chair and came creeping to where I stood, to hide himself as it seemed from the watcher, his haggard cheeks white as death.
I have been walking the streets all night," said Olga, with a haggard look.
From heaven thy dropped to earth, and parted once more by a hand-breath, stared with haggard looks at one another.
Even as she spoke the door opened, and Olga entered the room looking haggard and worn out.
Then he looked at the haggard face of Ware, at the silent group of men and the startled women standing in the doorway, where the rector was keeping them back.
Mrs. Morley looked more worn and haggard than ever, and seemed about to say something as Giles was taking his leave.
Everyone said that she was regretting the death of Daisy and the wickedness of Anne; but others remarked that she had looked just as haggard and worn before as after the tragedy.
The sight of the pale and haggard features covered with the glassy moisture of a sudden and unspeakable terror might have moved a heart of stone.
A heavy shadow falling across the two lovers caused them to turn, and to find themselves face to face with a haggard and dishevelled man, whose pallid face and dark upbraiding eye, caused them to spring hastily to their feet.
The change in her, the thin face, the haggard looks, increased as they were by illness, had been a shock to Sidney Hinchford, though he did his best to disguise all evidence from her.
Mattie, with her bonnet and shawl on, and awry from her past movements, with her face pale and haggard from want of sleep, remained with her hands in the desk, looking hard at the new comer.
Mattie, dropping into the chair at the bed's head, and looking anxiously into the haggard face.
The perspiration beaded on his forehead, and he fixed his haggard eye upon the candlesticks.
While he went on thus withhaggard eye, had he any distinct perception of what the result of his adventure at D---- might be?
Even in his face nothing could have been distinguished with certainty, for it displayed a sort of haggard astonishment.
She had a glimpse of a prone figure in a corner struggling upwards, and then Curtis was before her--Curtis haggard and agitated as she had never seen him--pushing her back out of the dim place into the clean starlight without.
A passion for gambling seemed to have taken entire possession of his being; and almost every day, as well as night, of his haggard and feverish life was passed at play.
Ghost-like and pale he wandered, With a dreamy, haggard eye; He seemed not one of the living, And yet he could not die.
Such were the words that reached the ear of the royal Castilian, whispered by a man of stern and commanding, though haggard aspect.
But when I fail the groundlings shall look up And see their brothers through the ether plunge, Stricken, a haggard rout of flame-flotillas of the sun!
From age to age the haggard human train Creeps wearily across Time's burning sands To look into her face, and lift weak hands In supplication to the calm disdain That crowns her stony brow.
She looked into his eyes; they seemed to her both haggardand appealing.
They had noticed his dusty clothing and his haggard look, and they had almost pitied him until they saw their old master's terrible condition, and remembered who was the cause of it.
By his side, busily plying her needle and thread, sat a young woman whose thin hands and haggard cheeks told their own story of mental torture and bodily suffering.
Her mother noticed her peculiar manner, and Ruth explained that she had a bad headache and wasn't well, and Mr. Adrian also put his haggard looks down to a sleepless night with the toothache.
Anxieties and distress of mind began to affect her health, and the old people noticing her pale face and haggard look, besought her not to overwork herself by her constant labours among the poor.
But concern for herself and child was displaced for the moment by her regard of Roger's worn and haggard face.
Rodoin's clerk was looking out for her, and went hastily to fetch his master, who came into a small room which had been set apart for them, and where she tottered towards him with outspread hands and a haggard face.
His eyes lit on Felicie, and a haggard smile crossed his face.
He laughed readily, yet occasionally a certain haggard look, curiously at variance with the roundness of his cheek, crept over his face and aged it.
While they stood there the saloon doors were opened and a haggard row of faces peered out.
Young Montelet looked at it with white, haggard face.
With disordered dress and white, haggard face, the figure of Elton Carlyle himself stood in the doorway.
She sees the haggard impress of the sleepless night on the pale, handsome face, and about the dark-blue eyes, with their slight heaviness and the faint blue circles around them.
After that one startled moment of indecision and surprise, she goes forward to him, she puts her small hand on his coat sleeve, she looks up into his white, haggardface with dark, pitying eyes.
The snowy, scented roses were not whiter than herhaggard young face.
Irene struck a light and then Mrs. Leslie gazed in wonder at the pale, haggard face.
When I came among them, I saw that something dire had befallen them: on their childish faces was the haggard look left by some strange terror.
I waited and waited to give the vision time; it would not come; the mirror stood blank; nothing lay in its dim old depth but the mirror opposite and my haggard face.
The unhappy man gazed in his face for a moment with a wandering and haggard look, as if he scarcely understood or believed the menaces held out to him.
All traces of the last night's excitement had disappeared with the cause, and pale, haggard and embarrassed, he seemed but the shadow of his former self, while the melancholy of his countenance had in it something wild and even fierce.
The painful nature of his reflections, added to the fatigue he had undergone, had given to his countenance a more than usually haggard expression.
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