'Yet, father, if I had been
stone blind; if I had groped my way by my sense of touch, and had been free, while I knew the shapes and surfaces of things, to exercise my fancy somewhat, in regard to them; I should have been a million times wiser, happier, more loving, more contented, more innocent and human in all good respects, than I am with the eyes I have.
Hard Times
To see people read, and to see people write, and to see the postmen deliver letters, and not to have the least idea of all that language--to be, to every scrap of it,
stone blind and dumb!
Bleak House
"Last summer, down on Red river, I got a gal traded off on me, with a likely lookin' child enough, and his eyes looked as bright as yourn; but, come to look, I found him
stone blind. Fact--he was
stone blind.
Uncle Toms Cabin
That 'personal drama' is the vehicle which Puccini chose to convey to us a perspective a thousand times higher, of the march of ethical principles, to which the present culture is
stone blind.
Missing the message of musical genius
Kaleido
Stone blind Scented Flowers blind Milford Zest blind
DON'T GIVE IN TO BLIND PANIC; Whether you like the simplicity of a roller blind, the practicality of a Venetian blind or the style of a Roman blind, Kirsty Martin from Web-Blinds explains how to fit them
'For George lost both his legs; and Bill's
stone blind; 'Poor Jim's shot through the lungs and like to die; 'And Bert's gone syphilitic: you'll not find 'A chap who's served that hasn't found some change.
We are the Dead. we lived, loved and Short days ago felt dawn, saw sunset glow, were loved
It includes our neighbor Elsie, who doled out ice cream to the kids on the block and who,
stone blind in her late 90s, still gamely made it to church.
Absence-minded
After the ibex had finished drinking and wandered off to their bedding sites for the day, we built a
stone blind on the rocky hill on the east side of the spring, where the morning sun would now be at our backs.
Mongolian high: when you're bowhunting halfway around the world, you'd better have confidence in your gear--and yourself
This country, as a whole, is
stone blind to what it's doing to the Palestinians -- even now, when the Palestinians, at least in the West Bank, are finally doing what we've asked them to do for decades: end the violence.
Rattling the cage: Go for it, Abbas!
The essay had been penned by her but dictated by her father who was
stone blind. He gave all the reasons why she should be looking out of the window.
Dorinda Mc Cann
If I had my weight in lime, I'd whip my captain till he went stone blind. (40) Songs such as this one, Paul D reasons, are too violent for the domestic situation in which he now finds himself.
Love that woman till you go stone blind. Stone blind; stone blind.
"Ten minutes for seven letters": song as key to narrative revision in Toni Morrison's Beloved
But over the next couple of days, we saw only three small rams, and now, feeling better, I had an urge to get back to my stone blind among all the sheep above timberline.
Sitting in the stone blind and watching sheep was entertaining but unproductive, because the rams always stayed out of my shooting range.
WRITING A STORY ABOUT BIGHORN SHEEP IS A TOUGH ASSIGNMENT, BUT I WROTE THE PERFECT ENDING
The rhymed resolution of this piece - "Love that woman till you go
stone blind. /
Stone blind;
stone blind.
'Beloved': ideologies in conflict, improvised subjects