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Meanings of blear-eyed in English

Tired to the point of exhaustion.

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Examples for "bleary"
1
At one point, halfway along the trench, he can see bleary gray-white.
Finders Keepers
2
As she stepped inside eight or ten bleary men looked her way.
Winter’s Bone
3
Mr Adelson answered the door in shirtsleeves and suspenders, unshaved and bleary.
A Place so Foreign
4
In the bleary light of dawn, Sugar is ready to be excused.
The Guardian
5
The Medic was bleary-eyed and inclined to stagger when they freed him.
Plague Ship
1
Thou canst talk over the gentry, and blear a plain man's eye.
Chronicles of the Canongate, 1st Series
2
Oh, filthy, heavy-handed, blear-eyed world, when will you wash and be clean?
Gone to Earth
3
An ugly light came into the blear eyes of Soup Face.
The Oakdale Affair
4
These were undoubtedly genuine ruffians of the worst type, hungry, blear-eyed and ragged.
Grace Harlowe's Plebe Year at High School / The Merry Doings of ...
5
She had an ashen-gray face full of wrinkles, blear eyes, and red hair.
Household Tales by Brothers Grimm
1
The Medic was bleary-eyed and inclined to stagger when they freed him.
Plague Ship
2
They had already been out canvassing bleary-eyed commuters at Malahide railway station.
The Irish Times
3
All around her the other children were waking up in bleary-eyed mystification.
The Naked God
4
He ate, but he was not bleary-eyed, and he did not huddle.
To the blight: the eye of the world
5
And in my bleary-eyed state, I had confused Julie for my mom.
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow ...
Usage of blear-eyed in English
1
The bald-headed, the dwarfed, and the blear-eyed are ineligible for the priesthood.
Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and ...
2
Blake stared up at him, blear-eyed with overstudy and loss of sleep.
Out of the Primitive
3
But anything was better than being approached by these blear-eyed nightmarish witches.
Within the Tides: Tales
4
But Lia was blear-eyed: Rachel was well favoured, and of a beautiful countenance.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
5
A blear-eyed ancient stood before him, balancing on a single crutch.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
6
They have not solved the problem of the simple life, these shivering, blear-eyed folk.
Fountains in the Sand: Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
7
The blear-eyed Governor made me a compliment, with a wrinkled hand upon his heart.
Margaret Tudor: A Romance of Old St. Augustine
8
David had always thought of him as the bullying, bloated giant, purple-faced and blear-eyed.
The Rose in the Ring
9
Would Aurelia surrender to a blear-eyed foreigner in a moustache?
Prue and I
10
My bustling, comely housewife turned out a wizened, blear-eyed dame.
Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green
11
Grinders of cutlery die of consumption; weavers are stunted in their growth; smiths become blear-eyed.
Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 1
12
He was thinking of the slovenly, blear-eyed woman who had brought him into the world.
The Mucker
13
Morrison and his common hotel, with its blear-eyed windows, were now well out of sight.
The Lady of Big Shanty
14
And the blear-eyed merchant wrote and sealed and filed and took no notice of his customers.
It Is Never Too Late to Mend
15
Then one blear-eyed and scab-faced cripple scrambled up and struck off his cap with a crutch.
The Scapegoat
16
That rather cast a damper over the enthusiasm until one blear-eyed man of fifty observed, knowingly:
The High School Boys' Training Hike
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Blear-eyed through the time