stone-blind
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
See blind.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of stone-blind
1325–75; Middle English (north) staneblynde; see stone, blind
Example Sentences
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The late, great Joseph Pulitzer, founder of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, suffered all his life from weak eyes, was stone-blind when he died in 1911.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the second week, everyone knew perfectly well what was going on, yet everyone tried to look as if they were stone-blind to the changes in Jo’s face.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
My own vision, by the way, is reasonably good, if I may say so; at any rate I am not stone-blind.
From Birds in the Bush by Torrey, Bradford
His eyes were extinguished by ophthalmia, and there he sits, fronting the sunlight, stone-blind.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
Why?" when he proceeded,— "First of all, my friend Trentanove was stone-blind, and Barros nearly blind.
From The Frozen Pirate by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
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