To punish drug takers is like a drunk striking the bleary face it sees in the mirror.

Stephen picked it up, peered into its affable, bleary face, shook it, and hung it upon its rope.

His team sat at desks and on desks, some scratching at bleary faces; others sucking on the bitter coffee as though it were elixir.

The bleary face that appeared out of the hood belonged to Marv Dandridge, a close colleague, one of the top men running the blackjack ring and one of his neighbours on death row.

He called in one of the policemen overseeing the elections, a young man with a bleary, red face and dim eyes.

It looked as if he'd napped in them, though his bleary face suggested he hadn't slept in days.

By the light from the lamp, Connie saw his face, bleary and unshaven.

As he turned, his own bedroom door opened and a bleary, reddened face appeared.

Fitz sighed again, then brought up his hand and rubbed his bleary face.

And then the bleary awakening-the over-large faces of his parents looking down at him on the bed-big faces suspended at odd angles.