I saw that she understood what it meant, and with constricted heart watched her as she bent over the dying man and gazed into his wide-open eyes, already sightless and staring.
He held it as a tiger might hold his prey or a miser his gold, but his set features and sightless eyes betrayed that a conflict of emotions was being waged within him, among which tenderness had but little share.
The glare shone luridly on his sightless eyeballs, and as she noticed his unwinking lids, she realized as never before what it was to be blind in the midst of sunshine.
Here Mr. Wells goes off into a quiet chuckle of scepticism, one finger crooked over his pipe-stem, his sightless eyes blinking at the coals.
The pathos is greatly heightened by an extremely delicate yet sure individuation of the figures, as when at the mention of Heaven those not sightless from birth raise their countenance to the sky.
To the groping, sightless soul is offered the unction of faith and the ability to repent; and in the Siloam of baptism shall be received the enlightenment that guides the soul, once blind, now seeing, along the path leading to eternal life.
Jesus anointed the sightless eyes with clay, and said unto the man: "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.
As between the sightless beggar and the sin-proud Pharisees, the latter were by far the blinder.
Oh, sightless man, anoint thine eyes with the balm of compliance with the laws and ordinances of the Gospel as enunciated by the Redeemer of men.
Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains.
She is the light of these sightless eyes now, and is all that is left to me on earth.
But to Richard, walking the snorting and impatient horses slowly up and down the woodland drive in the blear and sightless fog, life appeared quite other than an entrancing pastime.
Though no beam of pleasure irradiated her sightless eyes, her bright and heightening color, the eager yet tremulous tones of her voice assured him of a joyous welcome.
Alice lifted her downcast, blushing face, while the tears rolled gently from her beautiful, sightless eyes.
She would raise her sightless eyes to Heaven, following the upward strain with feelings of the most intense devotion.
A cry escaped from Gutenberg; his stick fell from his hand; the sightless eyes seemed to seek the face of the young man at his knees.
Reader, spare me the recital of that scene where the sightless old man entered the archiepiscopal residence to render his thanks in person to his powerful patron.
Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, your murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief!
The woman turned her head quickly and held out her hand, as a smile, soft and gentle, rippled over her face, and almost overcame the fixed stare in the sightless eyes.
The blind woman stood motionless, with closely compressed lips and eyes that stared in their sightless fixity.
Here's Nellie," Dickson said abruptly, as he reached the chair where the sightless woman sat.
So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell His sightless soul may stray.
But at the sight of the wavering, sightless eyes, although prompted by nudges and husky whispers, he forgot his carefully-prepared sentences.
The tall, gaunt, forbidding-looking old woman sitting there turned sightless eyes toward them, putting forth a strong hand.
Vulfran, turning his sightless eyes towards Perrine, who was trembling from head to foot, "why this little girl did not say who she was?
Yes, sir; I know it is very sad," said little Perrine, lifting her beautiful eyes to the sightless eyes of her grandfather.
I love him after all these years of absence as though he were still the little boy I brought up, and when I think of him, which is day and night, it is the little boy that I see with my sightless eyes.
And it was those other sorrows that had made him say those few words in such a sad, sad tone; the memory of which made this old blind man bend his head while the tears sprang into his sightless eyes.
The Blind Girl never knew that ugly shapes of delf and earthenware were on the board; that sorrow and faint-heartedness were in the house; that Caleb's scanty hairs were turning greyer and more grey before her sightless face.
Reverently Fred removed the flag, closed the sightless eyes, and gave orders that the body, as soon as possible, be sent to Louisville.
Goddard's sightless eyes were turned for an instant in her direction.
A child singing," the doctor added, and turned sightless eyes toward the captain.
His uncle stood at the porch railing, sightless eyes turned off across the valley, a great, tawny German shepherd dog at his side.
Around the sightless eyes, around the serene mouth, strange, intense lines he knew well had suddenly formed.
He reached out a groping hand, and found the sleeve, and brought it close to his sightless eyes as though trying to pierce a veil of darkness and make out the pattern.
Why--" The idea of sightless eyes trying to examine handwriting staggered Bryan Smith.
The boy knew, by this sign, that the brain behind the sightless eyes had caught a glimmer of light.
Back in the sunlight Joe saw that the smile was gone and that the puckers around the sightless eyes had become intent.
Stone put the pipe away and turned his sightless eyes toward the spot from which Waring's voice had sounded.
The blind man's head rested against the back of the chair; his sightless eyes seemed to stare unblinkingly at some object on the ceiling; the pale face had the calmness of graven stone.
The doctor's sightless eyes were fixed straight ahead as though he saw something that was denied to other men.
The puckered lines had come back to the sightless eyes.
Stone sat with a perplexed pucker between his sightless eyes.
He fixed his sightless eyes on me and I felt stunned, as one hypnotized.
Wide-open yet sightless orbs whereof the cataracts blackened the view of all Life's perils, as they had of the imminent river.
Tibbie listened to the end, without word of remark or question, her face turned towards the reader, and her sightless balls rolling under their closed lids.
When, at length, she followed her into the open air, she found her standing by the door, turning her sightless face on all sides, as if looking for some one and trying hard to open her eyes that she might see better.
The sightless look wavered over them and the white head shook slowly.
Under their heavy lids his sightless eyeballs, whitely opaque and lusterless, turned mutely toward the sound of the horse hoofs.
He is the leader of a band of sightless mendicants and in this position he has frequently passed your open door, though--probably being warned by the benevolent--he has never yet entered.
Sometimes intellect seems sightless and wanders lost in the maze.
