It can only be explained as expressing a kind of purblind inertia. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: McCain and the Cuba Libre] Reference
On purblind eyes: but prayer from earth abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
Mere experience is but a purblind wisdom, after all. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865] Reference
If only the purblind authorities and custodians of our. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
Nothing short of purblind copying actually gets detected. From Wordnik.com. [WSJIDEBATE: Are Students Too Reliant on the Internet for Research?] Reference
Ah me! how purblind you are, you old fellows of the days of. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Ah me! how purblind you are, you old fellows of the days of Cronus!. From Wordnik.com. [Plutus] Reference
A man who knows himself to be purblind, should take heed to his feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Reformed Pastor] Reference
But the dean saw a ray of hope out of those purblind old eyes of his. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
This cannot be my ring; I see another device, unless I am going purblind. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
In short it was so flimsy a veil, that the purblind might see through it. From Wordnik.com. [John Adams autobiography, part 1, "John Adams," through 1776] Reference
I doubt they are that purblind - but they will pay a very big price if they do. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: Curbing Big Banks: Draw the Damn Line] Reference
In thus mingling the gray with the blue he was neither color-blind nor purblind. From Wordnik.com. [Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of William H. F. Lee (A Representative from Virginia) Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, Fifty-Second Congress, First Session] Reference
We peer in our purblind fashion into the future and try to anticipate our needs. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
Evidently I will need someone to make up for my obvious and purblind obtuseness. From Wordnik.com. [One Hundred Pennsylvania Mayors To Endorse Hillary Today] Reference
The purblind old man knew her step, although she had been there but a few times. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City] Reference
The seeing had become purblind so gradually that they scarcely noticed their loss. From Wordnik.com. [The Door in the Wall, and other stories] Reference
"'Oh, purblind race of miserable men --'" Kendal began lightly, but she stopped him. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
And I suppose that these purblind sheep do have some occult weight that is salutary. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn] Reference
The West's purblind when it comes to the complexities of the Arab/Islamic world, Mel. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
He approached the table shuffling, with bent head, and purblind eyes peering this way and that. From Wordnik.com. [In Direst Peril] Reference
"It is very curious," I said, in my own purblind fashion, "but I suppose the extremities heal last.". From Wordnik.com. [My New Curate] Reference
'No, you purblind clown,' said Major de Blacquaire, rising, and fitting his crutches to his armpits. From Wordnik.com. [VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea] Reference
But, at last I began, in a purblind groping way, to read, write, and cipher, on the very smallest scale. From Wordnik.com. [Great Expectations] Reference
But nuts or no nuts, full nuts or empty nuts, the purblind creatures below went on wandering and singing. From Wordnik.com. [The Inn of Tranquillity: Studies and Essays] Reference
Obama has turned the page on Bush's purblind refusal to spend the money needed to get the real economy going. From Wordnik.com. [Robert L. Borosage: Obama's Wall Street Woes] Reference
A purblind cyclops could never mistake the expression of an Independent preacher, an universal free-black-nigger. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
He has a malicious pleasure in confusing the boundaries of nature and fancy, and mocking the purblind understanding. From Wordnik.com. [The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1] Reference
"And my own folk, purblind fools that they are, will not see it," Rhavas muttered, his breath making puffs of fog around him. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
Now, to tell Kitty's secret, she had had her love-affair her mother knew nothing about, which made her purblind in this matter. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
But the people ye remain for me, even with your virtues, the people with purblind eyes — the people who know not what SPIRIT is!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Some jester, enlarging upon the increase of bald heads and purblind people, has deduced a wonderful future for the children of men. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
Perhaps the simple story carried a deeper meaning to these brooding mountains and this solemn sky than to the purblind hearts within. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861] Reference
Well, a purblind Germany settled that uncertainty by a series of misdeeds which no nation of high ideals could allow to pass unchallenged. From Wordnik.com. [Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy] Reference
The Gloss there writes thus; "The locusts in the time of the dew are purblind, so that if you hunt them at that time they stop their pace.". From Wordnik.com. [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference
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