How To Use Sightless In A Sentence

  • She shivered as she felt so many sightless eyes boring into her.
  • He preluded as he spoke, in a manner which really excited my curiosity; and then, taking the old tune of Galashiels for his theme, he graced it with a number of wild, complicated, and beautiful variations; during which it was wonderful to observe how his sightless face was lighted up under the conscious pride and heartfelt delight in the exercise of his own very considerable powers. Redgauntlet
  • Between the torch brackets, images of long-dead nobility gazed down at them with an air of sorrow, as if their sightless eyes regretted the passing of more cheerful days.
  • Maia turned her sightless eyes towards the shopkeeper.
  • That's the scenario faced by triffid-expert Bill Masen, who finds himself a sighted man in a sightless nation. The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
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  • Now you know what an auditory minefield we sightless people face all the time.
  • Angela walked sightlessly past the school custodian.
  • Trying her best to keep an amused grin from breaking out on her face, Emily silently watched Tommy as he moved away from her to stare sightlessly out the window at the snow-covered grounds.
  • Lee's sightless eyes followed the sound of Frank's voice.
  • Most of the day he sat outside the shed with his hands propped on his cane while the sun glowed against his sightless eyes. THE MAIN CAGES
  • Alara raised one hand, and pointed upwards; the girl looked up involuntarily, then dropped her gaze to Alara's "sightless" eyes. The Elvenbane
  • He and his coworkers are tracking the progress of 20 children in India, ages 6 to 15, who grew up sightless before the surgical removal of their cataracts.
  • Ever the woman whose sightless eyes ran scalding tears chanted her love-cry, ever the dancers of love danced in the warm night, and ever the calabashes went around till in all their brains were maggots crawling of memory and desire. Koolau the Leper
  • Even when they are blanks, sightless as in sculpture, they focus the attention hypnotically.
  • The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.
  • In Barcelona, 1934, she photographs a man on a stool on a sidewalk, his white eyes sightless, the crook of his cane resting against one thigh, a beggar's bowl in his hand.
  • They stood before Blaise, wearing black clothing, heads lowered, sightless eyes glaring at him from under stringy hair.
  • The windows of the house looked back at her, sightless eyes. THE WHITE DOVE
  • Oedipus angrily dismissed the sightless old man, accusing him of conspiring with Jocasta's brother, Creon, to overthrow him.
  • Jophiel cocked his head, his cornstalk hair dipping in front of his sightless eyes.
  • Most of the day he sat outside the shed with his hands propped on his cane while the sun glowed against his sightless eyes. THE MAIN CAGES
  • Consult your pastor about the choice between sightlessness and personal bankruptcy.
  • Moreover, both compositions boast the same cast of eccentrically posed, heavily built characters, with their unmistakably distorted faces and sightless eyes.
  • He sighed and rested the blunt end of his broadsword against his shoulder, gazing sightlessly around the battlefield.
  • In Oedipus Rex, the proud yet morally blind king plucks out his eyes, and has to spend his remaining days as a wandering, sightless beggar, guided at every painful step by his daughter, Antigone.
  • Their sightless eyes, black as tar, ‘looked’ in every direction.
  • The windows of the house looked back at her, sightless eyes. THE WHITE DOVE
  • To convince the enemy of their menacing strength, the townspeople were ordered to bang drums, blow trumpets and jostle the sightless envoy.
  • Seawater? Sightless , he listened, hunting the booming sounds of the ocean.
  • The shutters were firmly closed at the ticket booth, the waxwork policemen staring with sightless eyes at passers-by.
  • His sightless eyes looked almost black in the shadows cast by the candle he had lit.
  • One of them was the sightless woman whose tears till now had never ceased. Koolau the Leper
  • His rheumy eyes were wandering sightlessly, but his ears were locked on me and twitching.
  • One will no longer seek to reply to them nor to silence their din, but rather to find the reason of their misshapenness, their lameness, their sightless eyes, their long ears.
  • Persson's eyes were open and he gazed sightlessly at the starlit sky he would never see again. COVER STORY
  • Evoking the myth of Pygmalion, a woman portrayed as a sightless sculptor in Blind Vision brings to life a Napoleonic man of clay who responds to the touch of her modeling by opening one seeing eye.
  • Sorin gazed sightlessly down at the paper in front of him.
  • A sightless person scribbling illegibly in the dark. Earl Pomerantz: Milestone
  • The McDonoughs consulted with their veterinarian, who advised them that they were too busy to cope with the challenges posed by a sightless canine.
  • The kits came with sightless BB guns, safety glasses and 4-inch aluminum disk targets. Uncategorized Blog Posts
  • Presents thy shadow to my sightless view.
  • After the war, everything was different, Vienna no less than my sightless self. The light that draws the flower
  • Wordenwood now plans to start a special foundation for the blind that will push for the use of Braille on lures to help sightless fishermen around the world.
  • Brand watched him in silence as he wiped a tear from his sightless eyes. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • They must not suppose me cheerless – my lute is here – ‘tis a fair deceit on them – this lute which has so oft been damped with the tears from my sightless eyes – the sound of it is the only indication I can give that I am contented with my lot! Act II
  • Shah Alam II ruled well until his eighties and died as a sightless wretch dressed in rags when an army from Bengal led by General Gerald Lake stormed Delhi and Agra.
  • The girl stares at the shark, her pretty human eye focused on the eye of the sightless, eerie fish.
  • Several pellets were lodged in his eyes, leaving him sightless. PHOTOS: Blind Orangutan Gives Birth To Adorable Twins
  • All I could see was that face, smeared in jellylike feces, the blank eyes sightlessly staring into the abyss above. The Curse of the Wendigo
  • An officer from his section stood outside his door, staring ahead sightlessly, opening his mouth to recite a message in a monotone.
  • Suddenly, Cy stopped ranting and faced Peter once more, with a faint glimmer of recognition in his sightless eyes that were now filled with tears running down his leathery cheek.
  • A sightless masseur who roams 19th-century Japan fighting injustice, he is easy to love and hard to kill.
  • Wolf hunkered down beneath a pepperidge tree, stared sightlessly at the grey water. Black Blade
  • The logic-defying atmosphere of Bosch receded from his art, and although he continued to explore themes of vice and folly, laughter and delight, he increasingly presented these as affairs of flesh-and-blood people in recognizable surroundings, as in "The Blind Leading the Blind" 1568, whose sightless wanderers pitiably tumble one by one into a ditch. Earthy Grandeur
  • Brand watched him in silence as he wiped a tear from his sightless eyes. THE SOUND OF MURDER
  • He preluded as he spoke, in a manner which really excited my curiosity; and then, taking the old tune of Galashiels for his theme, he graced it with a number of wild, complicated, and beautiful variations; during which it was wonderful to observe how his sightless face was lighted up under the conscious pride and heartfelt delight in the exercise of his own very considerable powers. Redgauntlet
  • The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.
  • You have tried on the bars, sightless dates, churches, market stores, etc, all with low or no succeeder. Xml's Blinklist.com
  • Sightless and flightless, they exist only to be impregnated.
  • He wiped a tear from his sightless eyes.
  • Who is it that so wisely, delicately and beautifully arranges and transforms the ugly -- that is, the sightless, formless substance of the earth into flowers? My Life in Christ, or Moments of Spiritual Serenity and Contemplation, of Reverent Feeling, of Earnest Self-Amendment, and of Peace in God
  • There was Symeon Star-Eyes, true, but he had years of experience fighting sightless. Suvudu Cage Matches, Round Two
  • Langford received the gaze of his wide-set, sightless brown eyes, from which all glint of humor was gone.
  • The fish lay at the back of the boat, its mouth agape, its eyes staring sightlessly at us.
  • An officer from his section stood outside his door, staring ahead sightlessly, opening his mouth to recite a message in a monotone.
  • Sprawled on the floor, her skin as white as chalk, her sightless eyes staring up the ceiling, was the body of an old lady.
  • Above the doorway, the sightless eyes of tigers stare down from their plinths; below is a signed daguerreotype of Queen Victoria.
  • Like graveless dead men's staring, sightless eyes. The Path of Dreams Poems
  • Beneath the ancient hammer beam roof, and under the sightless gaze of stone statues of the Saxon kings, the MPs gathered on the eastern side of the south end of the hall, peers on the western side.

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