"Stone-blind" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that if I give up all reading and sewing entirely and any kind of work that strains the eyes, and if I'm careful not to cry, and if I wear the glasses he's given me he thinks my eyes may not get any worse and my headaches will be cured. But if I don't he says I'll certainly be stone-blind in six months. Blind! Anne, just ...
— Anne Of Green Gables • Lucy Maud Montgomery
... was a very old and miserable man; stone-blind, covered with rags; and supporting his steps ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville
... their neighbours' households. The Egyptian race is chronically weak-eyed, the effect of the damp hot climate of the valley, where ophthalmia prevailed even during the pre-Pharaohnic days. The great Sesostris died stone-blind and his successor lost his sight for ten years (Pilgrimage ii., 176). That the Fellahs are now congenitally weak-eyed, may be seen by comparing them with negroes imported from Central Africa. Ophthalmia rages, especially ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... Perhaps Percy was right, when he said that Susy loved everything that was dumb; and I am not sure but her tender heart would have warmed to him all the more if he had been stone-blind, as ...
— Little Prudy's Sister Susy • Sophie May
... on, 'I have ruined all! But, Otto, in kindness you must hear me - not justify, but own, my faults. I have been taught so cruelly; I have had such time for thought, and see the world so changed. I have been blind, stone-blind; I have let all true good go by me, and lived on shadows. But when this dream fell, and I had betrayed you, and thought I had killed - ' She paused. 'I thought I had killed Gondremark,' she said with a deep flush, 'and I found myself ...
— Prince Otto • Robert Louis Stevenson
... deaf man was paid and discharged, and the lazzarone went to the guard-room, and brought back an invalid who was stone-blind and led ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 341, March, 1844, Vol. 55 • Various
... toward the clouds. It sped through them, stone-blind from the mist. And then there was a small airfield below, and the pilot and co-pilot began a pattern ...
— Space Platform • Murray Leinster
... ill in my bed, for I was attached to the 72nd regiment, seventeen hundred strong. I had a party of seamen with me; but the ophthalmia made such ravages, that the whole regiment, colonel and all, went stone-blind—all, except one corporal! You may stare, gentlemen, but it's very true. Well, this corporal had a precious time of it: he was obliged to lead out the whole regiment to water—he led the way, and two or three took hold of the skirts of his jacket on each side; the skirts ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 13 Issue 364 - 4 Apr 1829 • Various
... sometimes saw black where others saw white, some objects rectilinear which others saw curved, objects small which others saw large,—nay, the very same men at different times seeing the same objects differently colored, and of varying forms and attitudes, and every second man almost stone-blind into the bargain,—I rather think that, instead of saying men were endowed with one and the same power of vision, we should say that our nature exhibited only an imperfect and rudimentary tendency towards so desirable a faculty; but that a clear, uniform, faculty ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers |
