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stone-blindness

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  • The intervals between the flashes were so densely dark as to convey the idea of stone-blindness.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

  • Women, when she tuck me to her bosom, I just slid right down thar on 'my unworthy knees thar on the ground at her feet thar, and with bitter tears beseeched of her to forgive and forgit my hard-heartedness and stone-blindness and dog-meanness, which of course, being Marthy, she had already done allus-ago.

    Sight to the Blind Lucy Furman

  • Mrs. Jarvis could not be brought to admit her stone-blindness and clung to the theory of somebody in London; but as Esther never went to London, and nobody from London came to her, and the postmistress swore no letters passed between London and the Sutton family, Mrs. Jarvis became a little distrusted, although some of her acquaintances believed her predictions with greater firmness as they remained unfulfilled.

    More Pages from a Journal Mark Rutherford 1872

  • About their own vartoo, an 'folks's stone-blindness

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • About their own vartoo, an 'folks's stone-blindness

    The Biglow Papers James Russell Lowell 1855

  • a night so pitchy dark that every flash of the intensely vivid lightning leaves you with the impression of stone-blindness, while the rain pours down so fast that your fire goes out, leaving you without the protection of even a tree, or the chance of your gun going off.

    Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa 2004

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