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Updated: May 21, 2025
Suddenly Gail lifted her eyes from the hole in the carpet, at which she had been staring unseeingly, glanced at the old clock on the wall, and exclaimed, "Girls, it's a quarter to one! Fly into bed, every one of you! School keeps tomorrow just the same. Try to lay aside this trouble at least for tonight and get a little sleep. In the morning I will speak to Mr. Strong about it "
Just two more inches of elevation of that hated head and he could send the jacketed bullet shearing just through the bridge of the aquiline nose, splitting both eyeballs and blinding his enemy for the little space of life he would thereafter accord him. It would be passing sweet to have that helpless, sightless thing listen unseeingly to his maltreatment of the woman.
He laid the slices of bacon upon half of the cake, folded the other half over upon them, squatted on his heels beside the fire and ate the ungainly sandwich and drank the hot black coffee sweetened and with a few of the coarser grains floating on top. While he ate he stared unseeingly into the fire, that sputtered and hissed when an extra sifting of snow came down upon it.
He strolled slowly along the avenue, watching the sweltering noon crowds unseeingly, entirely unconscious of the fact that many people turned to look at him. He paused before a Johnstown Lunch sign, wondering whimsically what Jonas would say if it were reported that the boss had eaten here. And as he paused, the incessantly swinging door emitted Miss Diana Allen. Enoch's pause became a full stop.
It's like looking up suddenly from some nocturnal fête all Japanese lanterns and fireworks and seeing the moon gazing down serenely and unseeingly upon one; it startles and sobers one a little, you know. 'I suppose you are sober sometimes, said Althea, continuing to smile. 'Lord, yes! Gerald laughed. 'Really and truly, Miss Jakes, I'm only playing at being a child, you know.
"I should have suggested it earlier, only I knew that you could not finish The Gates away from your library." She spoke in a curiously listless way. "Could you be ready to go on Thursday, Yvonne?" "Yes, quite easily." "I can work upon my notes for the autumn book in Devon better than in London." "But," began Yvonne, and stopped, staring unseeingly at the roses in the bowl upon the table.
They will rally to Paul as the Crusaders rallied to Peter the Hermit." "I read his book," said Flamby, still staring unseeingly before her, "and something inside myself told me that every word of it was true. I know that I have lived before, everybody knows it, but everybody isn't able to realise it. Dad told me that re-incarnation was the secret of life once when I asked him who his father was.
A few nights since, I played at the Russian Court before the beautiful Empress cold as a stone with her great diamonds flashing on her unhappy breast, before the Emperor, whose furtive eyes gazed unseeingly before him, as though black Fate hovered in the air before women, whose lives are steeped in the lowest intrigue before men, whose faces are as bearded masks, covering the wolf's snarl, yes!
He sprang lightly to his feet, opened the door, shut the door was gone, and Joy was alone in the dark again. She smiled up at Aunt Lucilla unseeingly. "Not even Lafayette could have been as kind as that," she said proudly, and leaned happily against the wall again. "Why, Joy, dear, don't you want to come in and see the people?" Grandmother was asking her solicitously, bending over her.
"I really think he is telling the truth," said the girl. "He is dreadfully hurt to think you distrust him." "He and I have threshed that out," Emerson declared, pacing the room with nervous strides. "When I think what an idiotic trifle it was that caused this disaster, I could throttle him and I would if I didn't blame myself for it." He paused to stare unseeingly at her."
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