Meaning of stone-blind | Babel Free

Definitions

Completely blind.

not-comparable

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Examples

“While recently addressing a large open-air audience in the district city itself, a man came forward⟳ and warmly invited me to dine with him. On inquiry, it turned out that he had formerly been stone-blind, but had been completely restored to sight by a simple operation at the hospital. Now, here was a man who would speak⟳ well of us, at all hazard ; and who, as a matter⟳ of fact, came home to his friends to tell⟳ them how great things the Lord had done for him.”

“A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post⟳; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball.”

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