Mrs. Marchmont had put away all the miserable gew-gaws and vanities which she had ordered from London in a sudden excess of folly or caprice, and had reassumed her mourning-robes of lustreless black.
Victor turned weary eyes his way, and under their black and lustreless regard the smile merged swiftly into a grin of nervous apology.
By degrees a faint trace of colour began to flush Victor's cheeks, a smile modified the set of his mouth, the heavy-lidded eyes lost their lustreless opacity and glimmered with uncanny light.
With a loud voice and his lustreless eyes upraised to Heaven, the boy said the Lord's prayer.
Mr. Arnold stared at the boy with lustreless eyes and hanging checks.
Dull marital sorrow had long ago transformed her eyes, once beautiful, into two lustreless slits.
Their black, lustreless hair drawn very low on their foreheads gave their eyes the appearance of torches burning in sombre woods.
That red, wrinkled, toothless face, those lustreless round eyes and touzled grey hair, those jerks and capers, that senseless halting speech!
They wore their black lustreless hair so low on their foreheads that their eyes resembled torches burning out of a dark forest.
Without any preliminaries, as a matter of course, the thin melancholy person with lustreless eyes and imperious manner had yesterday taken possession of her.
Finally, he caught sight of the round, lustreless pebble hanging at her neck suspended by its strings of pearls.
His head sank heavily back upon the pillow, and his eyes became more lustreless and fixed.
Indeed, her tall, erect figure in black lustreless silk, appearing in a heavily shadowed doorway, or seated in a recessed window, gave a new and patrician dignity to the melancholy of the hacienda.
All at once in the midst of the silence Vassya drew himself up and, fixing his lustreless eyes on one point, pricked up his ears.
He slowly passed his mild lustreless eyes over us; then his glance rested on the rosy face of a young merchant's wife with black eyebrows, who was standing on the ferry beside me silently shrinking from the mist that wrapped her about.
He continued to visit the lodge of the chief every night for the space of a moon, entertaining him, with the same fixed and lustreless eye, and in the same hoarse tone, with these old tales.
The eyeholes were now lustreless but the rudely carved gap that just before had been a mouth still seemed to twist itself into a despairing grin, and was so far human.
After that she wears lustreless silks, trimmed with crape and jet, and goes to court if commanded.
In England a lady of the court wears, for her parent, crape and bombazine (or its equivalent in any lustreless cloth) for three months.
There are now, however, other and more agreeable fabrics which also bear the dead black, lustrelesslook which is alone considered respectful to the dead, and which are not so costly as crape, or so disagreeable to wear.
It was his wonted mask of impassive features and lustreless eyes that long caused Shaughnessy to be surprisingly and generally underestimated.
For when those eyes, but a moment beforelustreless and dead, lightened with that strange gleam, the dispirited clerk or discouraged gambler vanished.
Her lustrelesseyes fixed themselves again on the fire.
Her strong white hands became thinner; her lustreless eyes and haggard face betrayed her.
He took the remark as a direct refusal on my part to give him an outline of the affair to satisfy his curiosity, and I felt elated at noting the sudden glint of anger that appeared in the lustreless eyes.
I glanced at Leith as I spoke, and I fancied I detected a glint of amusement in thelustreless eyes that were turned in my direction.
He kept his black, lustreless eyes fixed continually on Stavrogin with a calm but warm and kindly expression in them.
It was the last day of November, cool and crackling outside, with a lustreless sun peering bleakly in at the windows.
All Brown's men had sprung up and crowded at his back with lustreless eyes.
The Ceylonese mix the lustreless pearls with other grains, with which they feed the poultry, in whose croops the pearls regain their former brilliancy after a few minutes' grinding.
She was at the opera last night in peacock blue when every other woman was wearing that dead, lustreless white.
Mrs. Payne fixed upon her a painted pair of eyes set in lustreless vacancy between two flashing diamond earrings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lustreless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
