sand-blind
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Origin of sand-blind
1350–1400; Middle English; alteration (assimilated to sand ) of Old English *samblind half-blind, equivalent to sam- half- (akin to semi- ) + blind blind
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O heavens, this is my true-begotten father! who, being more than sand-blind, high gravel blind, knows me not.
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
Adj. blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-blind, stark-blind; undiscerning†; dimsighted &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
Alack, sir, I am sand-blind, I know you not.”
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas Firminger
Yet, wherefore, oh, sand-blind Fortune! hast thou rolled the hypocritical saint in my bank-notes, and hung golden offerings upon her Medusa head, while I, the honest scoundrel, am stripped naked to supply the ovation?
From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie
"I am nothing but a skin of bones—nothing to pick," he said, "and all but sand-blind, and therefore could not see to be afraid."
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
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