purblindly

His attempts at being universal are taken for granted; after all, literature, since Aristotle, has been seen—often purblindly—as a “universal” category.

The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

The lower, yet still an estimable class, take up with worn-out Symbols of the Godlike; keep trimming and trucking between these and Hypocrisy, purblindly enough, miserably enough.

Paras. 40-58 1909

John Peter looked purblindly about him, rubbing his spectacles with a thread-bare coat-tail.

Hocken and Hunken Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"What did she say?" he asked Clementina, slanting the down-pulled brim of his soft hat purblindly toward her.

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878

"What did she say?" he asked Clementina, slanting the down-pulled brim of his soft hat purblindly toward her.

Ragged Lady — Volume 2 William Dean Howells 1878

He would lift himself from their ranks, which he scarcely overtopped, as you came up the footway to his door, and peer purblindly across at you.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

He would lift himself from their ranks, which he scarcely overtopped, as you came up the footway to his door, and peer purblindly across at you.

Cambridge Neighbors (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

She meant to try first with that big girl who had helped her put on the shoeman's bronze slippers; and she hurried through the office, pushing purblindly past

Ragged Lady — Volume 1 William Dean Howells 1878

I do not know that I like to think of those Roman mines myself, where it is said the sea now surges back and forth: they must have been worked by British slaves, who may be fancied climbing purblindly out when the legions left Britain, and not joining very loudly in the general lamentation at their withdrawal, but probably tempering the popular grief with the reflection that the heathen Saxons could not be much worse.

Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878

a certain young married lady, when she managed to shirk her rather filial duties to her husband, who was much about the verandas, purblindly feeling his way with a stick, as he walked up and down, or sitting opaque behind the glasses that preserved what was left of his sight, while his wife read to him.

Ragged Lady — Complete William Dean Howells 1878