stone-blind

If you see my blog you will see a Wilfred Owen sonnet I've read recently; 'Hospital Barge at cerisy' and I've also been readin 'February Afteroon' by Edward Thomas which ends in the lines "And God still sits aloft in the array, That we have wrought him, stone-deaf and stone-blind."

From The Ridiculous To The Sublime Newmania 2007

The great Sesostris died stone-blind and his successor lost his sight for ten years

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

I long for somewhat of those fruits, but we are as thou seest: I am a cripple and my mate here is stone-blind; so what shall we do?

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance, — by your sufferance.

The American Scholar 2006

He was stone-blind in both eyes, had several tumours, and a broken leg, which showed no symptoms of ever having begun to heal.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

It was not the ordinary darkness, in which forms can be faintly traced; it was like going suddenly stone-blind.

The Man Who Was Thursday Gilbert Keith 2003

But what was remarkable in the lady was, that although her features were handsome, and upon the whole pleasing, the pupil of each eye was dimmed with the whiteness of cataract, and she was evidently stone-blind.

The Purcell Papers 2003

Sesostris the Great died stone-blind; his successor lost his sight for ten years, and the

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Besides being a sentimentalist he was a romantic, a vain fellow, a man of wild passions, a little blind in one eye and almost stone-blind in the other.

The Beautiful and Damned 2003

And if she tried to ride closer, they would tell her to keep an eye on Logain, or simply stare at her until only a stone-blind fool could keep her nose where it did not belong.

The Fires of Heaven Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1993