dull-sighted

Momus was but dull-sighted in making this hostile criticism.

On the Parts of Animals 2002

And the dull-sighted peasant, seeing as though for the first time her untamed beauty, on an impulse offered to kiss her and make her his woman.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1922

And the dull-sighted peasant, seeing as though for the first time her untamed beauty, on an impulse offered to kiss her and make her his woman.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Eleanor Farjeon 1923

And the dull-sighted peasant, seeing as though for the first time her untamed beauty, on an impulse offered to kiss her and make her his woman.

Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard 1921

O Man! lift up thy dull-sighted eyes -- behold the wonder of the world, and the infinite universe about thee; behold thyself, and see thy many failings and imperfections, and thy stupendous littleness

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915

Kester caught up his clogs, and went quickly out through the back-kitchen into the farm-yard, not staying to greet them, as he had meant to do; and yet it was dull-sighted of him not to have perceived that whatever might be the relations between Philip and Sylvia, he was sure to have accompanied them home; for, alas! he was the only male protector of their blood remaining in the world.

Sylvia's Lovers — Complete Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Kester caught up his clogs, and went quickly out through the back-kitchen into the farm-yard, not staying to greet them, as he had meant to do; and yet it was dull-sighted of him not to have perceived that whatever might be the relations between Philip and Sylvia, he was sure to have accompanied them home; for, alas! he was the only male protector of their blood remaining in the world.

Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 2 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Conscience is too quick-sighted after illumination, and too dull-sighted before.

The Tryal & Triumph of Faith: or An Exposition of the History of Christs dispossessing of the daughter of the woman of Canaan. 1600-1661 1645

We are here, too, I take it, to cure those who are dull-sighted in this regard, so that, with vision cleared, they shall join in the struggle for ocular conservation and make it possible to give sweetness of disposition and ever-present cheerfulness, not to the blind, the good God sees to that, but to those who shall be saved from blindness. "

Five Lectures on Blindness Kate M. Foley

He's nothing but a corrupt, bald-headed, ridiculous, and dull-sighted person -- yet Elisaveta considers him a handsome man! "

The Created Legend Fyodor [pseud.] Sologub 1895