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Irregular features, tendency to wide separation of the eyes and pug nose, sallow, puffy complexion, waxy thickened nose and eyelids, deep-set, listless, lacklustre eyebrows, and thick prominent lips comprise the catalogue of the physiognomy. On the whole, the sort of face one passes in the street as stupid and common.
The lacklustre eyes flashed with a light that had not been seen in them for years, the bowed form acquired new energy, and he gave orders to admit the troopers. Their message was enough to fan into life the slumbering fires of ambition in the breast of a dying person. He yielded to the dazzling dream.
She boarded a City omnibus and was carried to King William Street. Here Desmond had his prosperous shipbroking office, and made his enviable thousands and sharpened his innately sharp brain, so well concealed below his lacklustre, almost naïve, exterior.
His fingers encountered his watch-chain; instantly he had plucked forth his watch and held it to his ear. He could hear it ticking. 'I am not deaf, he said aloud. 'I am only insane. My mind has quitted me for ever. He looked uneasily about the room, and gazed with lacklustre eyes at the chair in which Mr Dickson had installed himself. The end of a cigar lay near on the fender.
He allowed a black beard to grow on cheeks that had ever been so carefully shaven; and the long, thick black hair, once so sedulously curled, hung now in a lank, untidy mane about a face that was changing from its vigorous swarthiness to an unhealthy sallow, whilst the blue eyes, that had been so vivid and compelling, were now dull and lacklustre.
At such times, when the fun rippled and soared from height to height, suddenly, without rhyme or reason, his eyes would turn lacklustre, his brows knit, as with clenched hands and face overshot with spasms of mental pain he wrestled on the edge of the abyss with some unknown danger. He never spoke of his trouble, nor were we indiscreet enough to ask.
In the cafes of the Boule Miehe, where the decadent movements are hatched and the fledgling Verlaines come to drown theusorrows in vermouth, you may see the lacklustre visages and tumbled hair of "diabolical" poets and the world-weary figures of end-of-the-century youngsters pledging their mistresses in American grog.
Tenney," she said, "I'm an awfully interfering person. I've come to ask you and your wife to let me do something." Tenney was staring at her with lacklustre eyes. In these latter days, the old mad spark in them had gone. "Your baby," said Nan, feeling her heart beat hard, "isn't right. I know places where such poor little children are made right if they can be. They're studied and looked after.
And in this hollow was a clump of attenuated trees, with drooping leaves of a lacklustre hue, and a white bark peeling from the trunk; a pungent aroma, more medicinal than sylvan, hung rather heavily over the sequestered spot.
Jinks, no longer clad in elegant and martial costume, redolent equally of the ball-room and the battle-field no longer moving majestically onward with wide-stretched legs, against which his warlike sword made dreadful music no longer decorated with rosettes, and ruffles, and embroidery; but seated on the counter, in an old dressing-gown, with slipper'd feet and lacklustre eyes, driving his rapid needle through the cloth with savage and intrepid spirit.
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