The countless dismal windows, vacant and forlorn, stared, sightless, from their marble walls; the whole sad city taking on the semblance of scattered mounds of dead men's sun-bleached skulls--the casements having the appearance of
eyeless sockets, the portals, grinning jaws.
I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken,
eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.
Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an
eyeless statue in the soul?
At least without any occurrences that seemed unusual to the youth or the ape; but to the little girl it was a constant nightmare of horrors for days and weeks, until she too became accustomed to gazing into the
eyeless sockets of death and to the feel of the icy wind of his shroud-like mantle.
But I was minded to know the assegai or the kerrie; nor would I perish more slowly beneath the knives of the tormentors, nor be parched by the pangs of thirst, or wander
eyeless to my end.
It was evident from their groping hands that they were
eyeless, and their sluggish movements suggested a rudimentary nervous system and a correspondingly minute brain.
No one has lived in the house, much less in the garden, for twenty-five years, and it is such a pretty old place that the people who might have lived here and did not, deliberately preferring the horrors of a flat in a town, must have belonged to that vast number of
eyeless and earless persons of whom the world seems chiefly composed.
Another, an
eyeless drone with no feelers, said that all brood-cells should be perfect circles, so as not to interfere with the grub or the workers.
She had sighted two sinister grey vessels, low in the water, and bald as bone, one closely following the other with the look of
eyeless beasts seeking their prey.
At first she appeared as a sobbing woman but when she looked up the workers saw she had
eyeless sockets and let out a blood-curdling scream that made the workmen flee.
During the performance, demonstrators dragged a human-sized doll with an
eyeless effigy of Macron attached to its head onto a sports field, RIA Novosti reported.
