Then the nearsighted father put out his hand toward Peter's little sister.
Nearsighted people should be especially careful to avoid eyestrain, and should not work by artificial light.
In the nearsighted eye, these rays focus at a point in front of the retina; while in the farsighted eye these rays focus behind the retina; the nearsighted eye being elongated, and the farsighted eye being shortened.
In the nearsightedeye the eyeball is too long for parallel rays entering the eye to be focused upon the retina; they are bent, instead, to a point in front of the retina, and then diverge making the vision blurred.
Or again, the rays may be focused in front of the retina in one meridian, and directly on the retina in the other; this would be an example of nearsighted or myopic astigmatism.
Nearsighted persons are apt to stoop, owing to the habitual necessity for coming close to the object looked at.
The superintendent peered at Moya in his nearsighted fashion over the glasses on his nose.
Thick glasses rested on a Roman nose in front of nearsighted eyes.
Jones's enraptured eyes lingered on the slim shape in mail; he hated to do it, but he brought a Navajo blanket and draped in it the most distractingly pretty figure his rather nearsighted eyes had ever encountered.
The thin, nearsighted young woman who had been humped over the keyboard of the melodeon, straightened up.
Some nearsighted feller might take you for a goose,' I says.
She was dressed in a new black alpaca which rustled so very much like silk that nearsighted people might have been deceived by it.
But Draghetta, who could see the Austrians a mile off and when he saw them never failed to knock them over with a shot from his gun, was nearsighted as a mole, and when he wanted to read had to rub his nose into the print.
Cutemup approached in a solemn manner, and, nearsighted as he was, had almost to stick his nose into the wound to make his examination.
A nearsighted person is one who cannot see objects unless they are close to the eye.
The eyeball of a nearsightedperson is very wide, and the retina is too far away from the crystalline lens.
Sarah Farraday peered closely at her through her nearsighted eyes.
They were all in the brightness of the street light now, and Sarah brought her nearsighted gaze close to Jane's glowing face.
Mrs. Gray, searching about the room with her nearsighted blue eyes.
It is a pity," said Tom's aunt, turning her nearsighted blue eyes on him in amazement and displeasure.
This fact, in connection with the former tolerance of fine print, raises the question whether the world was not more nearsighted two generations ago than it is now; or does this only mean that the oculist is abroad in the land?
But, before his head could touch the rug, he reared it and half of his small body from the floor and focused his nearsighted eyes on the driveway.
Rutherford Garretse; his nearsighted eyes squinting as he sought to take in the motley details of the creature's appearance.
She miscalculated the distance or else her nearsighted baby eyes failed to take account of the four-foot drop to the gravel drive below.
