1 But a man can paint like Velasquez and yet be as dull as possible.
2 Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.
3 Two red sparks flashed for a moment in the woman's sodden eyes, then flickered out and left them dull and glazed.
4 Shrill flaring gas-jets, dulled and distorted in the fly-blown mirrors that faced them, were ranged round the walls.
5 He knew in what strange heavens they were suffering, and what dull hells were teaching them the secret of some new joy.
6 You never open your lips while you are painting, and it is horribly dull standing on a platform and trying to look pleasant.
7 It was a rather curious one of Moorish workmanship, made of dull silver inlaid with arabesques of burnished steel, and studded with coarse turquoises.
8 She wore a moss-coloured velvet jerkin with cinnamon sleeves, slim, brown, cross-gartered hose, a dainty little green cap with a hawk's feather caught in a jewel, and a hooded cloak lined with dull red.
9 "Women are not always allowed a choice," he answered, but hardly had he finished the sentence before from the far end of the conservatory came a stifled groan, followed by the dull sound of a heavy fall.