But how the tempter appeared to him who was God Omniscient; whether to the bodily Eye or to the Intellect, is as far beyond my cognizance as for a blind Man to judge of Colours.
We would sit down at opposite ends of the room to construct our mysteries of blind alleys and misleading passages, then each one would be turned loose in the "irrgarten" drawn by the other.
Any reader who went to Dreams and Dust (poems, published October, 1915) expecting to find light and waggish laughter, was on a blind quest.
There are traditions of persons having been smitten blind or senseless when about to commit some heinous offense, but the fact that this villain escaped without some such visitation throws discredit on all such stories.
But such is not the case; the more pernicious and baffling weeds, like snapdragon or blind nettles, being more local and restricted in their habits, and unable to fly at all.
To strike out now on our own hook, where the way was so blind and after the experience we had just had, was a step not to be carelessly taken.
Certain fields under the plow are always infested with "blind nettles," others with wild buckwheat, black blindweed, or cockle.
A blind white stillness took possession of the world.
He was a typical old Pole of that class, with a great capacity for emotion, for blind enthusiasm; with martial instincts and simple beliefs; and even with the old-time habit of larding his speech with Latin words.
Then she understood, and hastily sought the blind woman.
The blind woman nodded slowly in answer, clasping her hands together in her lap and closing her lips tightly.
On the verandah the blindwoman sat, huddled up against the wall, and beside her Ailleen was standing.
When, some time afterwards, the blind woman came out to the verandah, Ailleen began to carry out her intention.
She would not believe me," Ailleen exclaimed, as she turned to hurry back to where the blind woman was sitting.
She was growing impatient of the constant reference which the blind woman made to Willy and his excellent qualities, and his sadness at her distant bearing towards him.
The blind woman started to her feet with a piercing shriek.
The common people were mere blind devotees, and rendered unquestioning obedience to the decrees of the Druids.
His mockery of the blind poet roused Bodmer's anger, and he replied with his work the "Wonderful in Poetry.
Unchecked rule and superiority and a life of ease and luxury on the one side; blind submission and toil on the other, especially in the rural districts.
Ali Baba found the quarters, took them home, got a blind tailor to sew them together, and gave his brother burial.
Something in Maria's expression recalled to me the blind beggar-girl Lara; but Maria had eyes with a singularly dark glance of fire.
His hatred of the Turks did notblind him to such a point that he passed through a Greek village without plundering it.
Deeply moved by my thoughts of the blind girl, I sang of the glories of Nature and art, and of the poor maiden from whom all this magnificence was concealed.
By good fortune, when I got to Glen Doone, where the waterfall had frozen into rough steps, easy to climb, the snow came on again, thick enough to blind a man who had not spent his time among it as I had for days and days.
The old man was blind with rage, and, seizing a spear, he staggered to his feet, determined to kill her by his own hand.
The paralysed old rake turned his blind face upon her, as though he could see her, and had caught her doing wrong.
She felt no great sense of duty to her grandfather, and Sue's blind clinging to the family quarrel seemed senseless.
When allied to tenderness, it is the blind worship which has urged men to most of the chivalrously romantic acts in history.
The reader has probably already guessed the identity of the two ladies; this was the mother and her once beautiful, but now hideous and blind daughter.
We didn't know whether they were trying to blind the pilots or wave them away.
My men and I were the victims of short sightedness at home, of blindtrust in the respectability of scheming aggressors.
He then: "To what I now disclose be thy clear ken Directed, and thou plainly shalt behold How much those blind have err'd, who make themselves The guides of men.
Say who are ye, that stemming the blind stream, Forth from th' eternal prison-house have fled?
Our blind travellers seldom possess any previous knowledge of the countries which they visit.
Footnote 130: I have not leisure to follow the blindobstinacy of Lucifer of Cagliari.
An army of conquerors was broken into many disorderly bands of savage robbers; and their blind and irregular fury was not less pernicious to themselves, than to their enemies.
They both suppose with very little probability, that the emperor, if he had not been prevented by a prodigy, would have repeated the mistake of the blind Chalcedonians.
In the midst of their lamentations on his fall, the prudence of Athanasius may be distinguished from the blind and intemperate zeal of Hilary.
In the blind fury of civil discord, Constantius had abandoned to the Barbarians of Germany the countries of Gaul, which still acknowledged the authority of his rival.
The blind superstition, and abject slavery, of those unfortunate exiles, must excite the contempt of a philosophic emperor; but they deserved the friendship of Julian, by their implacable hatred of the Christian name.
If the people of the world persist, as they seem to be doing, in their blind materialism, they must bear the consequences in a prolongation of their present condition, and even a worsening of it.
Whatever mathematicians may assert, your regular gamblers always believe in luck, and therefore it is not surprising that a nation, whose great excitement is the lottery, should be devout worshippers of the blind goddess.
I am no blind admirer of the Romans, and I freely admit that no high-spirited crowd would have submitted to be cut down by a mere handful of gendarmes.
Durkin, in the meantime, hurried uptown in his hansom, consumed with a feeling of resentment, torn by a fury of blind revolt against all organized society, against all law and authority and order.
Only one passion possessed them--the blind and persistent and unreasoning passion for escape, for freedom.
Frank slowly groped to the wall of her room, and felt with blind and exploring hands until she came to her bureau.
MacNutt, narrowly watching the shadowy face of Durkin, saw pictured on that pallid and changing countenance fear and revolt, one momentary touch of despairing doubt, and then a mounting and all-consuming passion of blind rage.
But as intelligence slowly emerged from the mist and chaos of utter bewilderment, as reason crept haltingly back to her seat, his first blind and indeterminate rage fell away from him.
If it was all the fruit ofblind chance, if it came thus unearned and accidental, why should he not have his share of it?
But she caught solace from some blind belief that all women, through some vague operation of their affectional powers, could invade the darkest mires of life, if only it were done for love, and carry away no stain.
But the fingers at the end of it were caught between her strong white carnivorous teeth; and they became stained with blood as, in her frenzy, she fought and bit and struggled, with the blind fury of some final despair.
Frank suddenly sobbed out, tossed and exalted on a wave of blind gratitude.
He extended his fingers before him, as a blindman might, and took one shuffling step forward.
But Royalist though he was, he could not be blind to the profligacy of the Court and of the King, to whose Majesty his works were so grandiloquently dedicated.
There was something uncanny about this perfectly blind advance among crevasses and chasms on all sides.
Nor would there be any great risk attached to it, after all, since we should adopt a system of marks that would lead even a blind man back to the place.
As soon as we could see what our surroundings were, it was clear enough that we had done right in stopping the game of blind man's buff we had been playing on the previous day.
Have not found a single beacon in this blind man's weather.
I am not quite certain, though, that he did see us for the moment, as he was about as snow-blind as a man can be.
Meanwhile I considered it inadvisable to come to close quarters with them so long as we were unable to use our eyes, and, remembering what happens when the blind leads the blind, we camped.
Farley, too, was full of loyalty for his friend and fellow-classman, but he did not allow this to blind his judgment.
He drew aside the reeded blindof one of the windows and went out into the soft air; both land and sea--that beautiful stretch of shining blue--seemed quivering in the heat and abundant sunlight of June.
The awful crisis had arrived; and he seemed toblind himself and deaden himself to all things in this mortal world except the little notch in the rifle, the shining sight, and that fawn-colored object over there.
The King was at first as blind and stubborn as kings usually have been whensoever they have been in the hands of monks.
When I had about recovered from the beating and the black and blue marks were nearly gone, I realized that with a few more blows like that the blindman would have gotten rid of me.
He got a lot out of them with these ways I've been telling about; in fact, he earned more in a month than a hundred ordinary blindmen earn in a year.
When I came back I found that sinner of a blind man holding the turnip between two slices of bread.
The perverse blind man was so mad that if people hadn't come at the noise, I think he would have killed me.
But both the stingy blind man and that blasted miser of a priest did all right in God's name--one of them with a quick tongue and the other one with his hand-kissing.
But the blind man's prophecy wasn't wrong, and since then I've often thought about that man who must have had a gift for telling the future.
The dirty blind man saw that now was the time to take out his revenge on me, and he raised that sweet and bitter jug with both his hands and smashed it down on my mouth with all his might.
We were in Escalona, a town owned by the duke of that name, at an inn, and the blind man gave me a piece of sausage to roast for him.
Well, getting back to my dear blind man and telling about his ways, you should know that from the time God created the world there's no one He made smarter or sharper than that man.
I began to beg for alms from door to door, with a low, humble, devout tone, the way I had learned in the blind man's school.
Then that rotten blind man told everyone there about the things I'd done, and he told them over and over about the jug and the grapes and this last incident.
The blind man told me to go up next to the animal, and when I was there he said, "Lazaro, put your ear up next to this bull and you'll hear a great sound inside of it.
Because even though the blind man was the very picture of greed, as I've said, he was an Alexander the Great compared to this fellow.
And the British Museum manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX contains an illustration of a boy drinking through a straw from a blind man's bowl.
He thought it would be difficult, but not to go back on his promise and because the little blind archer had wounded him with an arrow, he gave his word.
On one such occasion the tortoise struck the wall so forcibly as to break its shell, and then Goujon seized a shovel and rushed at his tormentor with such blind fury that the latter made a bolt of it.
A faint rustling sound was perceptible, and, as nearly as could be discerned in the darkness, some white blind or covering was placed over the glass from the inside.
There was a loud exclamation from within, the blind fell, and somebody rushed to the back door and flung it open.
