purblind

• It received neither the ungenerous and purblind, though not wholly unjust, abuse which in the long—run did so much good to Tennyson himself, nor the absurd and pernicious bleatings of praise which have greeted certain novices of late years. —  Matthew Arnold
• O purblind, well-meaning altogether fuscous Melesigenes-Wilbur, there are things in him incommunicable by stroke of birch! —  The Biglow Papers
• He fancied himself to be fired with the purblind, mistaken heroism of the anarchist, hurling his victim to destruction with full knowledge that the catastrophe shall sweep him also into the vortex it creates But his constitutional irresoluteness obstructed his path continually; brain-sick, weak of will, emotional, timid even, he temporised, procrastinated, brooded; came to decisions in the dark hours of the night, only to abandon them in the morning Once only he had ACTED. —  The Octopus : A story of California
• She is very purblind, and more than a little deaf. —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland II
• The aristocracy are purblind, and cannot distinctly decipher the "signs of the times." —  Newton Forster The Merchant Service

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