A bleared winter sun was sinking down through a scarf of mist.
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The room is populous, and bleared With folk brought hither by a breath!
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His eyes were bleared, his thin hair all tossed, and he was shaking.
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Below, the bleared lights of the city stretched away to the sky-line.
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His face was pale and haggard, and his eyes were bleared and heavy.
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His eyes were bleared, and told all too surely the cause of the transformation.
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While he lay, the waning, fading moon had risen, weak and bleared and dull.
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Her smile had gone, but she was searching the bleared eyes of the man.
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His vision bleared for the last second that he remembered before he fell and everything went black.
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They swaggered unsteadily but belligerently toward the bar and looked at Pete with bleared and blinking eyes.
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She saw the door slam, the ghost evaporate, and the girl running until everything around her bleared into nothingness.
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Yet those same bleared optics had a strange, penetrating power, when it was their owner's purpose to read the human soul.
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He gorged himself habitually at table, which made him bilious, and gave him a dim and bleared eye and flabby cheeks.
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His gait was a trifle unsteady, his eyes were bleared, but his manner had lost none of its courtesy as he explained his errand.
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He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.
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From tiers of staircase windows clogged lamps like the eyes of Equity, bleared Argus with a fathomless pocket for every eye and an eye upon it, dimly blink at the stars.
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168, 174) He was the owner of The American Mabille, named after the Jardin de Mabille in Paris, originally located at a Bleecker Street home. The popular resort included a dance hall and concert saloon, in the basement and first floor respectively, which housed "all classes of the demi-monde from the sun-bleared Cyprian of the Bowery ... to the diamond-bedecked mistress of some sporting man" Gilfoyle, Timothy J. City of Eros: New York City, Prostitution, and the Commercialization of Sex, 1790–1920. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1994. (pg. 228–229) and where it was said "dissolute women in gaudy tights danced and sang ribald songs".
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In Condon's third novel, published in 1960, the following verse is found in two places: as an epigraph on a blank frontis page five pages after the title page and two pages before the beginning of the text; and, on page 275, as the closing words of the book. The first quotation is attributed to The Keener's Manual but not the second.The entire verse is in italics in both citations in the book. Some Angry Angel: A Mid-Century Faerie Tale, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1960, Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 60-8826 ::Some angry angel, ::Bleared by Bach and too inbred, ::Climbed out of bed, ::And, glancing downward, ::Threw a rock ::Which struck an earthbound peacock's head.
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She was a refrigerated vessel, designed to carry frozen meat and live cattle, and was claimed to be one of the largest meat-carrying ships then afloat. She made a successful maiden voyage from Canada and up the new canal to Manchester, which she took two days to negotiate after stopping overnight at Irlam to give the crew a rest. The Manchester Guardian reported on 16 January 1899 that "there were many shakings of the head, not only in Liverpool, at the audacity of the attempt" and that "the canal pilots, on reaching Irlam, looked as if they had not been in bed for a week, as their eyes were bleared with exhaustion". The City discharged 450 cattle and 150 sheep at Manchester Corporation's Foreign Animals Wharf near the Mode Wheel locks in Salford.
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