dim-sighted

• “Yefrem, nicknamed the Mole, a little, bent man with a sharp nose and dim-sighted eyes.”

  The Inn

• “But I need not have used all that caution, for the old gentleman was grown dim-sighted by some distemper which had fallen upon his eyes, and could but just see well enough to walk about, and not run against a tree or into a ditch.”

  Moll Flanders

• “The hybris, said by some to be the same as the eagle-owl, is never seen by daylight, as it is dim-sighted, but during the night it hunts like the eagle; it will fight the eagle with such desperation that the two combatants are often captured alive by shepherds; it lays two eggs, and, like others we have mentioned, it builds on rocks and in caverns.”

  The History of Animals

• “It is dim-sighted in the day-time, but sees well enough by night.”

  The History of Animals

• “By reason of which infirmity he was not able so distinctly and clearly to discern the points and blots of the dice as formerly he had been accustomed to do; whence it might very well have happened, said he, as old dim-sighted Isaac took Jacob for”

  Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel

• “Dim-witted, dim-sighted, or maybe just very smart, she thought.”

  For Love of Mother-Not

• “Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “And you will the more easily give credit to this, when you shall have observed how the disciples of Christ themselves, that conversed a long time with him, were dim-sighted, likewise, in this very thing.”

  From the Talmud and Hebraica

• “The Greeks used the name of Kronos in compounds and derivatives to mean dim-sighted, senile foolishness, nonsense, antiquated ideas.”

  PRIMITIVISM

• “This blindness has so fascinated our eyes, as to make us appear like owls that become dim-sighted when the light of truth is seen.”

  The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1

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