pupil
noun
a person, usually young, who is learning under the close supervision of a teacher at school, a private tutor, or the like; student.
pupilless
-
a word derived from
pupil.
Example Sentences
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They were thrice the size of the human eye and triangular, the apex of the angle upward; black as jet, pupilless, filled with tiny, leaping red flames.
From The Moon Pool by Abraham Merritt
The violet light in the huge, pupilless eyes still stared up at him implacable, from a head turned squarely over the back.
From In the Morning of Time by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
The pupilless eyes skittered toward Baron for a moment.
From The End of Time by Wallace West
He stared at the central figure, and it gazed back with its withdrawn, pupilless, rust-red eyes.
From The Enormous Room by Horace Leonard Gold
The eyes were lifeless, and lustreless, and seemingly pupilless, and I shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to he contemplation of the thin and shrunken lips.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
