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Moreover, they were hungry. Yet it was twilight and the distant river had become a dark ribbon and the outlines of the poor houses below them blurred and indistinct in the gathering darkness before Tom could bring himself to re-enter the haunts of men. "You stay here," he said, "and I'll go down and pike around.
Our minds became blurred and numb a numbness that was broken from time to time by a sharp stab of pain whenever a sleeper was placed across our shoulders. "For Christ's sake, let's 'ave a blow," said my partner suddenly. I looked at my watch. It was a quarter-past ten nearly two hours more till lunch!
I scarcely knew how it was so little. The brightness was blurred. Then then comes all the rest. Her growing illness the anxiousness the long days the girl at the mills the talk of those women the first ghastly, damnable fear the nights the lying awake!" His breath came short and fast. He could not stop himself, it was plain.
She took her arm from Everett and brushed back the straggling locks that blurred her sight. The voice spoke again, pronouncing her name in low, even tones. Once more she wound her arm about Everett, and pressed herself down between her beloveds. Her eyes, protruding and fearful, saw the candlelight grow dimmer.
She's a damn fine girl, Dick, an' what right have you to break her heart for an old worn-out cowpuncher? Think how she's watchin' for you with that sweet face all sad an' troubled, an' her eyes turnin' black. You'll go, son, won't you?" Dick shook his head. The ranger turned his gaze upon Thorne, and now the keen, glistening light in his gray eyes had blurred. "Thorne, it's different with you.
Standards of honor are blurred, the spirit of public service is almost lost sight of, and the cheap materialism to which our prosperous age is too easily prone flourishes apace.
As best she could, and to the best of her belief, she held in a straight line for the town. But she walked far enough to have overrun it, and was yet upon unfamiliar ground. The twilight deepened. The sky above showed turquoise blue between the tall tree-tops, but the woods themselves grew blurred, dusky at a little distance ahead.
It was so frightful, so atrociously hideous a scene, that two big tears again fell upon Pierre's cheeks, whilst Guillaume's blurred, despairing eyes gazed wistfully far away, seeking for the Future. THE little house in which Guillaume had dwelt for so many years, a home of quietude and hard work, stood in the pale light of winter up yonder at Montmartre, peacefully awaiting his return.
There was a general store, a post-office, a white, wooden Congregational church with four Corinthian pillars, and an inn dating from Colonial days, as its swinging sign-board, adorned with the blurred image of a Revolutionary soldier, bore witness.
They were greatly changed in appearance, were very tired, and could tell little of their experiences in any connected way; at that time they had simply a succession of blurred impressions; they could recall a terrible excitement but had little idea of the sequence of events.
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