Darnel, was a phrase applied to a dim-sighted person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference

Dim-witted, dim-sighted, or maybe just very smart, she thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [For Love of Mother-Not]

It is dim-sighted in the day-time, but sees well enough by night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Animals] Reference

Yefrem, nicknamed the Mole, a little, bent man with a sharp nose and dim-sighted eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Inn] Reference

No: in the vile, life limps: it is like the eye to the dim-sighted; it fails of its task.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Six Enneads.] Reference

This blindness has so fascinated our eyes, as to make us appear like owls that become dim-sighted when the light of truth is seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 1] Reference

Talmudists speak much, and hyperbolically enough: which nevertheless they confess to be turned long since into miserable barrenness; but are dim-sighted as to the true cause of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

Jacob, like his father before him, when he was old, was dim-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference

With youth at the prow and dim-sighted age at the helm, they found several.    From Wordnik.com.  [Salthaven] Reference

Faults of the Person beloved, nor after it too dim-sighted and superficial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Spectator, Volume 2.] Reference

The old lady kept a sharp lookout on her little world with her dim-sighted eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malady of the Century] Reference

Poor, dear, stolid, dim-sighted mankind, how they do see through us and walk round us!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Brown at Oxford] Reference

Neither are they so dim-sighted that they cannot perceive who is the man and who the 'fellow.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hand but Not the Heart] Reference

He speaks as if now they were but dim-sighted, and short-sighted, in comparison of what they would be then.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy)] Reference

We make disquisitions which render us only more and more dim-sighted, and excursions that only consume our stores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obiter Dicta Second Series] Reference

Returning to the arched window, she lifted her eyes, -- scowling, poor, dim-sighted Hepzibah, in the face of Heaven!.    From Wordnik.com.  [House of the Seven Gables] Reference

Thanks to defective education the most enlightened of us go through life much like a dim-sighted man who has no spectacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

'Meidanov,' said the princess to a tall young man with a thin face, little dim-sighted eyes, and exceedingly long black hair, 'you as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Torrents of Spring] Reference

He raised his eyes and saw a friend of his, the parish clerk, Yefrem, nicknamed the Mole, a little, bent man with a sharp nose and dim-sighted eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories] Reference

A few very dim-sighted, and very wise, retained their reason sufficiently to say that nothing could be told about a woman from her looks -- especially an American woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise] Reference

Then, how dim-sighted and thoughtless are those, who would they were frolicsome children and free; they should rather rejoice to have fled from the woes that hung o'er them once so heavily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference

Shot, who began already to be very dim-sighted, came to the door to see what the clamour was about, and with the most indifferent movement of his tail returned to his place on the rug before the fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love of Brothers] Reference

Both were dim-sighted, both wore spectacles, both of their old nags were going at a walk, making no noise in the deep sand, and only when both horses stopped did either ancient peer forward and see the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heart of the Hills] Reference

This man who was old and dim-sighted, put on his spectacles to behold me better; at which I could not forbear laughing very heartily, for his eyes appeared like the full moon shining into a chamber at two windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference

Elder Tker smile answered, With pleasure, although I’m an old man, but have not arrived to dim-sighted steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

"I myself have felt the hurtful power of injurious age, I, dim-sighted, and hoarse in my tones and in my chest; and all helpful things have turned to my hurt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference

Here, Billy, my son, take the old Soap-stick; she's a good piece, but I'm getting too old and dim-sighted to shoot a rifle, especially with the drop-sight and double wabbles. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.)] Reference

Are you getting dim-sighted?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Droll Stories — Volume 1] Reference

How dim-sighted is human reason?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland] Reference

I have said that she was dim-sighted.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Falconer] Reference

That when dim-sighted ones therein shall looke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Affectionate Shepherd] Reference

It ought to be blue-eyed, dim-sighted, purblind.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arabian nights. English] Reference

Where others, less dim-sighted, see but mortals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1] Reference

Dull-eared, dim-sighted, slow of speech and thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Volume 09: the Iron Gate and Other Poems] Reference

& #160                        As what to our dim-sighted human eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912] Reference