Like Milton after age 43

Usage examples of sightless.

There was a nightmare flight through a vast cobwebbed nave whose ghostly arches readied up to realms of leering shadow, a sightless scramble through a littered basement, a climb to regions of air and street lights outside, and a mad racing down a spectral hill of gibbering gables, across a grim, silent city of tall black towers, and up the steep eastward precipice to his own ancient door.

His sightless eyes were centered in her direction but except for that maiming he stood as if he were truly his own man again.

The Revered Daughter of Paladine bid them rise, then turned her sightless eyes toward Dalamar.

Now he was collapsed into the corner of the booth, his shoulders hunched forward, neck sunk into his frame, sightless rheumy eyes gaping at the onlookers, his mouth rimmed with cracked flesh frozen in a silent scream.

The sightless eyes of Orville Brame stared out at the city he had left thirty years ago and to which he had never returned until now.

The heads stared with sightless eyes and open mouths at the same blue sky Maria had awakened to.

Whenever he rooted himself in a meadow of buttercups and poppies, or amidst purple monkshood and the peering, sightless faces of field pansies, or within sight of sweet pink clover and tufted violet vetch and sunny ragwort, it appeared at first that here was simply a gratuitous explosion of loveliness, to daze the bees and butterflies.

And what damnable expressiveness Pickman sometimes gave the sightless faces of this charnel booty!

He ran forward to a boulder, ducked, looked out: dead men, ten, fifteen, lumps of gray blood spattering everywhere, dirty white skin, a claw-like hand, black sightless eyes.

Across the island our hunt we take, From stringless bow let the arrow fly That we have aimed with a sightless eye.

His mind began to drift clear of his body, a huge sightless camera full of unexposed film snapping shuttershots of everything and anything, running freely, painlessly, without friction.

Time had long since stripped his wavering old eyes of the power to detect light, just as it had stripped the untonsured parts of his head of every hair except for the dense eyebrows that hung down over his sightless eyes like old thatching on a ruined cottage.

Such heightened sensitivity as compensation for blindness was used earlier by the British author Ernest Bramah, who created the blind detective Max Carrados, and later by the American writer Baynard Kendrick, whose sightless sleuth was Captain Duncan Maclain.

He sprawled upon the bank, his sightless eyes raised toward the sun, a crossbolt protruding from his neck.

And on the far shore a creature that raised its dripping mouth from the rimstone pool and stared into the light with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders.