I spent nearly two months in his flat, sleeping on a campaign stretcher, staying inside during the day with the blinds drawn reading and planning, leaving only for meetings or organizing sessions at night. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to hear this, because of all the blind dates I'd had that year not one called me up again for a second date. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The house was dusky with dawnlight creeping in around the edges of the blinds. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman's hair was white as snow, her skin was wrinkled, and one eye was blind. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

I lay there and thought of Roosevelt being dead and Billy being blind, and finally I turned over and lay with my face on the pillow and felt myself crying. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The blind man stroked the strings and played two more chords. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I pull two blinds apart, and look outside. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His leg was throbbing so badly he was almost blind with pain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Bright, blinding searchlights flashed on, aimed at us and at the mound of food, so that when we tried to run away from it, we could not see where we were going. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Your Worship shines so brightly, you will blind every man who dares to look upon you,” said Reznak. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger felt that a lot of people were like Mrs. Dalton, blind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

As I went down the stairs he was standing by the windowsill on the landing, looking out, blind and unseeing. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The wind whistled and the snow became a blinding blizzard. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In fact, the more extreme Tonist groups actually blinded themselves, and the Thunderhead reluctantly allowed it, preventing their healing nanites from restoring sight. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

A blinding stream of white light shot from the weapon and into the man’s chest, quickly turning him into a wall of gray, then an explosion of particles that disappeared. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

There were four of us kids still young enough to be living with Mama, plus Granny, her mother, sixty-five then, speaking no English, and nearly blind. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Side by side they stood looking across the road at the rows and rows of dilapidated brick houses, their windows dull and blind in the darkness. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Even in her later years, when she could no longer get out of bed, it seemed that she was simply defeated by decrepitude, but no one discovered that she was blind. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Been picnicking in my blind spot for a half hour.” Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

It was like a wedding cake, made in three blindingly white tiers. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When the blinding dust had settled a bit, the boy trembled at what he saw. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I awoke, I thought I was back in the courtyard under the blinding lights, but it was only the sun in the window. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He loved being blinded and hot under the plastic, and gave contented sighs. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

“He came in snow,” the blind man said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They were seen wandering in circles, dazed and half blind, before dying in convulsions. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

But Mark had only taken one step forward when there was a click, followed by the blinding beam of a flashlight pointed directly at Mark and Alec. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

A bit of light crept in around the edges of the closed blinds, illuminating the shape in the bed. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rose from her seat and stepped toward the blinding lights of the pulpit. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

I might as well be Little Stevie Wonder I am so blinded by that dress. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Young Griff pushed the Shy Maid away from a broken tower whose windows stared down like blind black eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I thought about how this must be what it's like to go to heaven—walking toward the blinding light, with the smell of bacon and eggs all around. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

"Gods save us, boy, you're not blind and you're not stupid. When dead men come hunting in the night, do you think it matters who sits the Iron Throne?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sky was brighter now, breaks in the overcast; light streamed down in blinding rays. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

My help would rob me blind if I didn’t keep every single thing locked down, and punish the culprits with a firm hand. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In other places, I’d seen kids who followed their leader like blind mice, right into the carving hands of the farmer’s wife. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

He apparently told her about his darkest secret, his blind eye. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind old man and his daughter felt safe there, and there Oedipus died. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was blinded by the swell of hope and the promise of possibility. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

In their letter, they told Hitler that their son was born blind, had a leg and part of an arm missing, and seemed to be mentally impaired. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But the chief mate was never blind on the Current of Faith. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They will drop germ bombs to wither the sugarcane fields, blacken the rivers, blind horses and pigs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

She climbed in beside her bags, and with a blinding flash from the chrome Mario polished all day long, the car disappeared down the driveway, past the guard at the gate, to the world. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“Kind of black, sinking moods. I imagine it’s what being in the eye of a tornado would be like, all calm and blinding at the same time. I hate them.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Sunlight reflected off the polished wood, almost blinding me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Moss pulled apart the blinds to see the sun disappearing on the horizon. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A streetlight outside the nearest window to the left cast stripes through the blinds onto Javier’s skin while he was in the kitchen, crossing over his shoulders and down his arms. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

His blind eye was a dark blue pit and the other glared yellow in the dust. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He twelve years old, blind, and got a hit on the radio. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“Do not gaze at the sun, lest you go blind, but stand in its light and let it warm you,” he instructed me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Tyrion had drunk himself blind his first night on the Shy Maid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were political realities there, then and now, that precluded blind faith, that discouraged one from thinking that everything, always, would work out fairly and equitably. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Some enterprising filarial worms, having worked their way up into his eyeballs, started making him blind, and he grew very gaunt and miserable. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

That too I've learned in the cellar, and not by deadening my sense of perception; I'm invisible, not blind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly they were back in the circular room, the dim light almost blinding now. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you actually mad? Of course I’m seeing what you’re seeing! Am I blind?” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

As he reached the door, the lights went on again, blinding in their intensity. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, you pied ninny, you blind mole, I wanted to say. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

I think he looked at me, but I could not see his face for the blinding lights behind him. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I snarled as we grappled blind and grunting in the darkness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Men went blind this far north; they lost lips, ears, noses, hands, and feet. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Where did my poor blind girl go begging last night?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The plaster was coming off the walls and the blinds hung crookedly in front of dark windows. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Let us never be blind,” said Mr. Pumblechook, “to her faults of temper, but it is to be hoped she meant well.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Beautiful or not, a look at the sunlight through straight glass would have blinded them inside of half a minute. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

I was shocked out of this resignation two weeks into the fall semester, when I awoke one night to a blinding pain in my jaw. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They would crouch in their foil-lined blind in complete silence, Butler repeatedly checking his equipment, while Artemis stared unblinking through the eye of the scope. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The story I think back on the most is the one from the conclusion: the tale of blind auditions and Abbie Conant’s confrontation with the Munich Philharmonic. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I move away from the window, walking at first, and then running, pushing my way through the hallways, careless, blind, empty. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Never again will her life be free of travail and disappointment in her three blind mice. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the blinds are pulled, so once I’m inside I can use a flashlight without being seen. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And if the blind leadeth the blind, both shall fall into the ditch,” she told him, making her argument unassailable because it was clearly on the side of the Lord. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

From darkness and from death Love was born, and with its birth, order and beauty began to banish blind confusion. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Horrible things. The worst kinds of torture. You drowned me slowly. You burned my heart from my chest. You blinded me.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Hurry! Russian planes dropped phosphorus on a mass of refugees. It blinded them and they had to roll in the snow.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Check your mirrors! The side ones, too! Those are important. Remember your blind spot!” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Gray pulled two of his own ribs from his shirt and ran around the fire, stabbing the ogres in the back with such blinding speed they didn’t even have time to yell. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He sent for Teiresias, the old blind prophet, the most revered of Thebans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pain blinded me, flashing white beneath my eyelids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Bran glimpsed blind eyes crawling with maggots, a wide mouth full of yellowed teeth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

My eyes were blinded with tears, and I couldn’t thank her. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

“I see... Well, actually, I’m blind, so I don’t see. Have you come to kill me, then? If so, good luck completing your quest.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He remembered his earliest days, when he had called himself the Fiercest of the Fierce, and his friendship then with the girl named Kira, who was the blind man’s daughter. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Karhidish psychologists, though lacking mindspeech and thus like, blind surgeons, were ingenious with drugs, hypnosis, spotshock, cryonic touch, and various mental therapies; I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The screen lit up, blinding and ostentatious, and its CPU component started whirring like crazy. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Mike, are you blind? That chicken’s not brown, inside is probably raw.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went over and pulled down the blind. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had caused the blind to see, the lame to walk, and He had raised dead men from the grave. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“And he blinds the girls he does not take.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

JT grinned at her, and his smile blinded us all to the fact that there wasn’t a bit of grease or dirt on his clothes. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I unfolded myself from the cramped cairn tunnel and stepped outside only to be blinded by light. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

A strong counter-emotion waxed in him, urging him, warning him to leave this newly-seen and newly-felt thing alone, that it would lead him to but another blind alley, to deeper hate and shame. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I can see them through the spaces in the window blinds. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

"I think I'm going blind," I said in this very hoarse voice. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

“Plus, the old man ain’t bad, for being blind. He can do just about everything.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I sat frozen and felt a long moment of blind panic. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The blinding light was illuminating the grass around him.... Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She understood with a dread that was like a blinding whack to the side of her head that what she was witnessing was nothing less than a courtship. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The little taxi rocked on tall waves, and the boys were temporarily blinded by a Gold spotlight shining through the raindrops. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Two people walked slowly toward us, their faces indistinct, their forms shadowy despite the blinding light. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The daylight blinds me, and I hear the shouts of hundreds of people. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

She pulled out her passport and raised it toward a blinding flashlight beam. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

I kept picturing in my mind mad dogs and mad wolves reeling about with the blind staggers, drooling slobbers and snapping and biting at everything in sight. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s staring at the window even though the blinds have been pulled. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just as I’m trying to decide whether to show teeth, a huge flash goes off and blinds me. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The knight held Joana by the elbow, worried that she might jump into the hole that had taken the blind girl from us. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The National Guard patrols a Detroit street after police raided a blind pig, setting off riots, 1967. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then, stepping into the house, Emma noticed that the living room curtains were still drawn tight across the windows, and so were the blinds on the bay window at the back of the house. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The drench seemed to come off the sea floor itself, where blind white fish ferried themselves by their own light through the great polar cold. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Since our eyes are adjusted to the darkness, when the car turns into the parking lot, the headlights are blinding. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

A blinding flash split the air in front of him. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I saw people in their houses, pulling back their blinds, peeking out their windows at the noise. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

The breathlessness of the air was growing as they climbed; and now they seemed often in the blind dark to sense some resistance thicker than the foul air. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He continues his twirl, landing a flyer in the hand of a blind woman. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Yet when Angelo pointed to another spot under the same tree, a spot where he had seen another mushroom, I was still blind. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

The adobe houses of the founders had been replaced by brick buildings with wooden blinds and cement floors which made the suffocating heat of two o'clock in the afternoon more bearable. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Clothes were flung everywhere, the blinds were shut, and it smelled like sweaty feet. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

This uncomfortable fact creates strong incentives for minority officers to deny, to rationalize, or to be willingly blind to the role of law enforcement in creating a racial undercaste. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“Please answer me. What is it? I’m blind and we have no food and water, but we have each other. That is something. Something precious. So what is it, my dear brother?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He carries me out of the barracks into the blinding sunshine. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Shadow turned onto the street where the houses were, all but one of them, dead, their windows blind and boarded. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There are still moments when you can tell some-thing slips in her brain and another world blinds her to us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The blind man stirred the chicken that simmered in a broth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“I should discipline myself for being so inexcusably blind to what you were doing.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Now, speaking of it the evening of the new ones’ arrival, the blind man expressed concern. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The blind man’s bird was marvelously colored, as if it had flown through a rainbow and been stained by the colors. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The rain...the truck...the tomatoes...the price of gasoline...and all the while Shiloh lays low in my lap, tail between his legs, shaking like a window blind in a breeze. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I nodded my thanks to the blind Christ and threw my backpack over one shoulder. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She dropped down to rest on the post of a duck blind. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

And now he would have to sit in the blind with ditchwater soaking into the seat of his pants. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Matt looked up into the blinding, blue sky and heard the leathery flap of wings as the bird turned in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, ye’ll get there,” says the woman, “but what ye two pups need first is a good sleeping and a good feeding. Any blind man could see that.” The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

And on the final strike, the dark flames are replaced with a blinding white, a shower of sparks falling like snowflakes around it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

As he stood by his newest machine, a blind girl and her escort approached him. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He sent a great shout over the water to the blind giant at the cave’s mouth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I mean, like I'm not trying to get personal, but I just wondered ... because I really don't know anyone who's blind, and I was just—" "Curious?" she says, and her right eyebrow lifts up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry’s eyes were suddenly dazzled by a blinding white light, as the Top Box was magically illuminated so that everyone in the stands could see the inside. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Lourdes and Felicia and Javier are middle-aged now and desolate, deaf and blind to the world, to each other, to her. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared so hard, willing her answering light to go on, that he thought he would go blind. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl’s blue scarf suddenly appeared on the surface of the water. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“We knew it would work ... we used his anger against him just like you said we should! You said he was even angrier at his son and his anger would blind him . . . and it did!” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

“If she keeps making this soup,” Caroline whispered, “I will dip my head into the pot and scald myself blind. That will show her that there’s no magic in it.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Dad comes into the room and wordlessly raises the blinds. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

It put out his left eye and then his right, and when he was blind in the dark it pecked at his brow, driving its terrible sharp beak deep into his skull. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I saw such a vision that I nearly wished I had remained blind. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She kicked and screamed, desperate to save her blind friend. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Half blinded, we drew closer together, unsure, a little afraid. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

We’re cleaning up because Mr. Woodwell has been invited to supper and Dad says it don’t matter if the old man is halfway blind, he still knows dirt from dirt. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The lights are blinding, and I can’t tell where my people are sitting. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And may God—if He exists, that is—strike me blind if the kite didn’t just drop into his outstretched arms. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the Peacekeepers turn a blind eye to the few of us who hunt because they're as hungry for fresh meat as anybody is. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

But when they privately conducted blind head-to-head taste tests of their own, they found the same thing: when asked to choose between Coke and Pepsi, the majority of tasters—57 percent—preferred Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

One eye on the binnacle, the other on the spotlighted water before his bow, Kabuo inched forward on blind faith. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

"The only trouble with ambition is that it sometimes blinds one to realities . . . Tell me, how many of these letters do you have?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy was sprawled on a frozen lake, his eyes white and blind, his mouth open in a last word. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

So he scratched a hole in the dry sand beside him, and when the glare of that light finally blinded him, he turned to his right side and vomited into the hole. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You have been crying till you are half blind, and you are near crying again now.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A blinding flash, and she was simply . . . gone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

This parlour looked gloomy: a neglected handful of fire burnt low in the grate; and, leaning over it, with his head supported against the high, old-fashioned mantelpiece, appeared the blind tenant of the room. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The Shy Maid moved through the fog like a blind man groping his way down an unfamiliar hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The speaker was the old blind prophet Teiresias, the holy man of Thebes who knew as no one else the will of the gods. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

No, if the Obscure Object was perfect to play the avenging sister, I was a shoo-in to play the old, blind prophet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Three brothers: one beloved, one blind, and one wicked. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Of course I’m awake! How can I sleep in this blinding glare?” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The feathers from a bird such as that would make a fine present for his new wife, but the blind man had a wife too, and she would also want the feathers. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cordelia tries to look at them sincerely, head-on; they are blinded by the glare, and freeze like rabbits in a headlight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now, alone in his homeplace, a feeling of hopelessness returned to the blind man. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I looked away, but I was still blinded. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He entered the cave and was blinded by the absence of light. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t know. He up at the hospital. I heard he blind.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the dark place all men were blind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After the darkness of the cellar, the light had hurt our eyes, almost blinded us. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Some syllabaries persist today, the most important being the kana syllabary that the Japanese use for telegrams, bank statements, and texts for blind readers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

All I can say is, poor kid; he’s probably blind by now. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

So here I am thirty miles out to sea in a blind fog with nothing but a few peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and a jug of water. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The flash blinded him for many long seconds, during which he could make out only subtle changes in color and feel the heat of the blast on his face. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Food made me want to throw up, blankets and clothes scratched and twisted, every light blinded me. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The light in the glass structure was blinding. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like flying blind, and not knowing where he was going—just where he had been—troubled him. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Good morning, Sister Poppies,” Matt called to the sea of blinding white flowers. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because you called me a blind mole, and then you acted like a jerk about your father winning the Baker Sporting Emporium contract.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Buck’s Peak looked the way it always did at Christmas—a snowy spire, adorned with evergreens—and my eyes, increasingly accustomed to brick and concrete, were nearly blinded by the scale and clarity of it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

They hadn’t turned the light on, so the room was dim—the only light came from beneath the blind over the window. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

However it got in the church it had killed four little girls, blinded a couple more and sent a bunch of other people to the hospital. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stumbled through the humid darkness, knocking into trees, blind as a hunted animal. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

“I really don’t know what I’d do if it weren’t for all the kindness you folks have shown me and Jubilee. ‘Kindness is the language the deaf can hear and the blind can see.’ Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The parking lot in front was empty, the vertical blinds in all the windows drawn. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The wind, which was enjoying the conversation, started to blow with greater force, so that the sun would not blind the boy. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luke was already up and looking through the blinds when Toby stood up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

So, because he was blind, he had super hearing. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I aim in the darkness and take his picture, the flash blinding me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

When the first light of morning peeked through the blinds of the apartment, Luke leaned over and kissed Annie gently on the ear. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

I pull down the blinds and draw the curtains. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Well, actually it’s a tale of how one woman, with an blind eye to stereotypes, had the eraser that took “National Spokesperson for the Plight of Black People” off my forehead. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Can she truly be so blind as to what be is! he wondered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But it’s not just a headache I feel, I can see it, like it’s made up of a million colors, all of them blinding. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Then he just lies there, his eyes trained on my face as I build a sort of blind out of vines to conceal the mouth of the cave. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Lightning burst in blinding flashes around the plane. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Now it’s their baby’s nursery, the room with the soft pink blind. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Milo was deaf and kept pushing forward, nonviolently but irresistibly, sweating, his eyes, as though he were in the grip of a blind fixation, burning feverishly, and his twitching mouth slavering. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

But neither was as amazing as this massive fist of blinding white rock thrust into the sky. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He passed through the stuff, and the unexpected light nearly blinded him. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Didn’t seem like it would, but I decided to forgive Isaac on the grounds that he was going blind. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

“We voted it down just a year ago,” the blind man reminded Matty when the message had been read to him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Whether you want to or not, now we’ll always be a part of here. Unless those kids get in there and rob us blind.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Mami’s blind enthusiasm is one of her more predictable and annoying qualities. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then a blinding flash of lightning fit the horizon. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The ball’s light blinded Madame Bee, and she fell back. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The bright sun blinded me as I stepped outdoors. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The god threw him into a deep sleep and Oenopion blinded him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes blinded with tears and he turned and went weakly out of the barn, and he rubbed his bristly whiskers with his wrist stump. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lights in the stadium finally turn on, illuminating the space with blinding brightness. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A few minutes later I’m lying on the operating table, the room dim except for the blinding light directly above my head. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

“You were driving like a blind man, Rafa. That will give them reason to stop you.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

Thomas squeezed his eyes against the blinding light of the sun as he emerged from the woods. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

These people were worthy of love and admiration in their blind loyalty, in their blind strength and tenacity. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blades were for them, though so far the blind girl had not been forced to use them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I bet it was the bright sun that almost blinded me and Ernie this morning. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He’d added at least sixteen new questions to his notebook since breakfast, mostly about being blind. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then, quickly substituting his own bird, he passed it to the blind man and put the colored bird into his own pouch. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Were we too blinded and distracted by the excitement? American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

But his grandfather had recently gone blind, and he had requested Ashoke’s company specifically, to read him The Statesman in the morning, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy in the afternoon. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“His father’s greetings burned his eyes when he approached—blinding him!” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That was what Maxim would look like, if he was very old, if he was blind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He wriggled his shoulders to adjust the pack comfortably on his back, and leaned forward to hug the blind man, who murmured to him, “Be safe.” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sun, seeping through the blinds, filled the bedroom with a sulphurous light. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

A blinding, sickening pain...a flash of light...distant screams...and the sensation of falling down a long tunnel... Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was more than tracks Calvin was looking for—he whispered to the trees, whispered to the ground, touched them, as a blind man caresses a page of Braille, pulling meaning through his fingers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We re both blind, may I remind you.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of blind children peeled potatoes and sang lustily to the gathering people. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, here she was leading a temporarily blind boy through her own backyard. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

What I remember next is the blinding light of early morning as I climbed out of the fuel tank. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Finally the blind man found a way to tuck it inside the rolled blanket. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ash moving over the road and the sagging hands of blind wire strung from the blackened lightpoles whining thinly in the wind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

All I can make out is the blinding flurry of flashlights beaming in every direction. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

But as they drove through the next village, he saw an old blind woman holding a baby girl in front of a house. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

And there, as if the blinding moment of brightness had created it like the wave of a wand, was the house on Maple Hill. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I almost blind myself with the stick of mascara. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

"Kill the beast! Cut his throat! Spill his blood! Now out of the terror rose another desire, thick, urgent, blind. "Kill the beast! Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

My eyes were blinded behind the curtain of tears and salt. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

“They were a gift,” I said, watching as the man squinted to avoid the glare of golden light emanating from La Llorona’s ear pendant and glinting directly into his eyes, momentarily blinding him. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The headlights blinded the girls till they had to put up their arms to block the sudden light. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She was nearly blind in her left eye and walked with a severe limp, dragging her Ieft foot behind her. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he was in Tartarus, dying from gorgon’s blood plus a dozen other agonizing curses, while he watched his girlfriend stumble around, helpless and blind and believing he’d abandoned her. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In the grand scheme of the country’s blind, grasping fight against threats seen and unseen, there would be mistakes made. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The blind man had never traded, not one single time, and was proud of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ben turned his shower off and walked half blind through the steam. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

What’s more, if I told them the whole story, I would have to admit that I had used sympathy to blind and bum my attackers. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I made those phantom calculations, did all that blind math so that I might cast for her the perfect picture of a face. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light came on, blindingly bright; he blinked. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Stanton closed the blinds, took a small knife or pair of scissors from his pocket, and bent over Lincoln’s body. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“How can I see if I am blind?” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He’d struck too low, and even in my terror I understood that he would always strike too low: he fought by instinct, blind mechanism ages old. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘My friend dreamed of a hunter with glowing eyes. If Orion is blind -’ ‘He was blind,’ Hades corrected. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The boats out there now were moving on blind bearings, and he didn’t necessarily trust their skippers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

‘Almost like I’ve been here -’ The green spotlight flashed directly below them, blinding Jason. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She says she’s sorry for Mr. Hannon’s troubles but we have troubles of our own and the last thing she needs now is a blind son stumbling through the streets of Limerick. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

August’s arm was around my waist like she was afraid I’d keel over again in a blind faint, but really, I had never been more present. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure that Finn was face blind and that it explained everything, including his feelings for her. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Even a blind pig finds an acorn once in a while. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Once out in the street, because I was so tired and also because we hadn’t opened the blinds, the day, already bright with sun, hit me like a slap in the face. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the clouds were seared by a blinding flash. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The flakes were fat and starry in the blinding lights. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Let him be wise, or let me be blind; don’t let me, she hoped concretely, don’t let me know too surely what he thinks of me. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Late that night, the blind man listened with a concerned look on his face while Matty described Trade Mart. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

By now, as her headache became blinding and her stomach pain increased, she must have been terribly frightened. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes ached in the harsh sunlight spearing through the office’s wooden blinds. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Malfoy moved over to the compartment door and let down the blinds, so that people in the corridor beyond could not peer in. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It's very possible that Jane is thinking the same thing, but I have no idea, because she's not talking either, and I can't look at her on account of how I'm blinded by embarrassment. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

I screamed to Timothy, “I’m blind, I’m blind.” The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“And now that he has blinded her, MaWee will hide behind one of the trees in the Swedish jungle and most foully lie in wait for an ambush!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Vaughan, blind to his friend’s machinations, had mentioned the investigation that he had been pursuing and confided the location of the hideout containing his money and evidence. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It fed in silence with an occasional sound of inner suffocation and blind searching. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man thought that he had disguised his trap, but he did not see that he had failed to do so and any bird could tell that there was a trap there. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I don't say anything because a lady is walking past us, frightened of this blind girl who seems to be yelling at no one. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his blind, unseeing eyes upon me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Gawaine, at the sight of steel, went into one of his blind rages. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nancy was a grandmother, slow in her steps and half blind. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t forget the old lady is nearly blind,” said Beatrice, “and she’s not very bright these days. I telephoned to the nurse that we were coming, so everything will be all right.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

We started off doing blind contour drawings of our hands, then of lettuce leaves, gourds, anything wrinkly. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

That morning I’d scouted out every inch of his position; I knew the blind spots and the little ripples of land and the places where he’d take cover in case of trouble. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I prayed for courage in a blind despairing way, and dug my nails into my hands. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

One used a cane which from time to time she tapped hollowly upon the walk like a blind man. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

On July 22, a group of friends gathered in Detroit at a “blind pig,” an unlicensed bar, to drink and welcome two black servicemen back from Vietnam. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Even better, the glass structure threw brilliant reflections into his eyes, and Will could see that for a moment he was almost blinded. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I left the podium and walked back to my seat, I wondered what blessing, if any, I would have recited had my eye been blinded. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

After the darkness of the corridors, the room beyond was blindingly bright. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

All of them, Werner notices, are in some way broken: they limp, or are blind in one eye, or their faces are lopsided from strokes or the previous war. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Matty had arrived at the homeplace the night before to find the blind man preparing for bed and listening attentively to the low collective moan, clearly a large number of people grieving. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A glimpse of blackout blinds in a window across the way, the Ford 8 on its blocks, perhaps. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

Another is a blind man who says he once worked at the INS. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He was often represented as blindfolded, because love is often blind. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the heat was so intense that it was just as bad standing still in the blinding stream falling from the sky. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I’m in a blind alley now, and that’s all there is to it.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It is quite possible that she did not believe in any other tendencies in humans, for while she was preternaturally alert in some directions she was completely blind in others. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The young girl cringed when they buckled the eyeless leather mask around the upper half of her face and blinded her. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The blind girl did not know whom the voice belonged to. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Why did you do that? You could have hit her eyes or worse. Then what would we have done? How would a blind child survive here? You have to think of things like that now!” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A copper haze hung over the water, and the hot morning sun beat on it and made it vibrate blindingly. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have formed the impression that—perhaps—you are blinded by your love for him. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

After being inside so long, the daylight almost blinded me. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was like the third degree, only he was both interrogator and suspect, both tough cop and hounded prisoner, a cruel spotlight pinning him in a blinding circle of light. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Manet tapped me on the shoulder, and I looked at him just in time to avoid being blinded by the initial burst of flame as the cloud caught fire. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

You can get a disease that can make you blind? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

"Must I suppose that he died without sounding it? Or have your rangers all gone deaf as well as blind?" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They went on in the perfect blackness, sightless as the blind. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The old blind man had thought that controlling Ella would make him a king. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I ran, bleary-eyed and blind, searching the night for my absent sister and the boy with the missing eye, but I couldn’t find them. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Did her lack of training blind her to KGB surveillance? Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s something we both have to do,” I tried to explain, but it was like trying to describe colors to a blind man. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe Dad and I had a similar blind spot. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Among my personal highlights is the memory of having my picture taken with Uncle Paul, the legally blind host of a Raleigh children's television show. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

He qualified because of his deafness and the fact that he was nearly blind without glasses. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I ran through these bright and dark patches so fast that the changing light nearly blinded me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Celia fingers the sheet of onion parchment in her pocket, reads the words again, one by one, like a blind woman. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind boys moaned and rocked on their feet. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I had watched, but my eyes were blind to its sacred vision. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

For months after my stepfather died, Mommy walked around the house as if she were blind, staggering through the motions of life. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solar cells of the recharging hoverboards were blindingly bright in the sun. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

“The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The dark place was pulling at him by then, the house of whispers where all men were blind. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I would have spared you if I could— HARRY: “Love blinds us”? Do you even know what that means? Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

There was an earsplitting crash, and the air was filled with blinding dust. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes without the glasses were blind, unwavering, strange. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She pushed her suitcase into the open top—it barely fit—and banged it through the cheap Venetian blind. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Her heart tree is as deaf and blind as our Drowned God. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Perspiration was pouring down his thin frame now and the great blade was blinding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I writhed beneath Frankie in a blind panic, trying to pry his hands from around my neck. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

He told them how Fannie had gone blind when she was five but his mother had taught her to play anyway. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One by one they .opened the bird cages, and the sky filled with parakeets, canaries, lovebirds, and finches, which flew around in circles, blinded by their sudden freedom, and finally took off in every direction. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We can’t just build another cabin, buy more supplies, and start over as if nothing ever happened. Circle Justice isn’t blind. It is about facing consequences.” Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

The light outside was blinding; inside, it was cool and dark. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s brand-new. They call it a Wiggle King. So colorful it’ll catch a blind fish. Anyway, I doubt that concoction is worth the fish and the lure.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It’s made him very accommodating, since he’s not blind to Mother’s faults. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

After our blinding journey through the sunlit streets of Yazd, it seemed almost dark inside, despite the warm golden walls. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They say snakes go blind for a While before they shed skin for the last time. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because in the real world, no one ever drinks Coca-Cola blind. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

At least I convinced him to leave the other six slots open, else Duck might have six ducklings trailing after him, each more blindingly adequate than the last. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Usually there seem to be shadows from Venetian blinds all across your legs. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Were they so blind to human nature, to developing situations? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each commentator has a curse of knowledge of his own, together with hobbyhorses, blind spots, and axes to grind, and the writer cannot pander to all of them. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Iii was a tall, vaporous, thin man with thick blind blue crystals over his yellowish eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted the fourteen-year-old boy who was completely blind to my inner beauty to give me validation. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

They approached the window, bending O’Doyle’s blinds wide enough to peer out. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He had stood there for a long moment, intent, focused, while beside him the blind man waited. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I overheard them talking about fixing Mom up on a blind date with August’s uncle Ben. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was that the entire principle of a blind taste test was ridiculous. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He handed out stacks of chips and explained the blinds. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

This is truly the blind leading the blind. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Just like the crazy and grieving mother, Amá keeps all the blinds and curtains drawn, which makes our cramped apartment even more stuffy and depressing. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

A blinding white light, visible for a second, then a motorized whir from inside the camera. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

Gregor brought up the rear with Boots and her blinding screams. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment he was blinded, fighting for air. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Two minutes later, the blind in the downstairs window went down. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bullet, who was clearly blind in one eye, turned towards Miig. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, a lot of adults are too blind or cold-hearted to see our pain. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

For the first time since Dad raised the blinds, I allow myself to hope. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

If we could, it would blind us, so that eyelid, it protects us. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

I’d just been too blind to see the one unfolding right before my eyes. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A blinding sheet of white flame sprang up. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Releasing Goldilocks, the demon reeled back, scorched by a blinding blaze. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The moon was almost blinding, so bright the stars were barely visible. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

But the blinds were closed on the window. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The great sweeps of space and the hard, elemental coloring almost blinded him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Tell me how he looks,” the blind man said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He described all the ways the Library was suited for the blind—the routine, the unchanging furniture, the textured knobs and cupboards in the kitchen. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

If I was blind, I could even rub my fingers over dots. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I know who you mean. They’re a nice family,” the blind man said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The paint itched and drove him crazy, but he didn’t relish finding his way back out of the mazelike ducts in blind blackness, so he let his forehead itch and again surveyed his position. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For that hour Ashoke was deaf and blind to the world around him. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Finally they had to lead the Lion of Lannister off to a blacksmith, blind and stumbling. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, with your eye span, there are going to be blind spots, but that shouldn’t hamper you unduly. Now, run the camera.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The blind girl understood Braavosi and could speak it passably, she had even lost most of her barbaric accent, but the kindly man was not content. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Claudia pretended that she was blind and had to depend upon her senses of hearing, touch, and smell. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the world of sons has changed; it’s more likely to be the boys now with that baffled look, like a night dweller gone blind in sunlight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Bad enough you nearly died of typhoid, now you want to go blind on top of it. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The Pacific is no place for rowers, especially when they are weak and blind, when their lifeboats are large and unwieldy, and when the wind is not cooperating. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man went to the window and stood there listening. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Before the advent of blind auditions, the percentage of women in major symphony orchestras in the United States was less than 5 percent. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“You bet your shiny tin badge I do. This creep tried to blind me, too. Threw dirt in my eyes!” Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anya looked out the window at the dimming day, wondering once again how Babulya knew some of the things she knew—like that it was almost sunset, even though she was blind. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

He looked pale and tired, and he held his hand up to his face as if the soft light sifting through the sitting room curtains was blinding him. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Eleanor and Theodora looked into a garden, their eyes blinded with the light of sun and rich color; incredibly, there was a picnic party on the grass in the garden. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

They all run after the farmer’s wife, She cut off their tails with a carving knife, Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three... blind... mice? Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

We have a sense of what a leader is supposed to look like, and that stereotype is so powerful that when someone fits it, we simply become blind to other considerations. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

General Matsika said they all had been listening to Praise too long, and it made them blind to real problems. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

"There are some things I do not need to be told. Even a blind man could see that wolf would never, have left you willingly!" A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The blind man smiled, loosened a beet from the earth, and placed it in the basket of vegetables. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The chicken’s headless body ran in blind circles until the blood surge slowed and the body pulled up dead—right before us. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

‘Oh ... my brilliant plumage. Very well. I suppose you can’t die in glory if you are blinded and burned.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Louvenia work all day for Miss Lou Anne and then come home ever afternoon and take Robert to blind school so he can learn to read with his fingers. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

After the dimness of the tent, the world outside was blinding bright. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

All the curtains were drawn at the next-door neighbors’, turning the panes of glass into blind rectangles. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The blinding shine of the stage lights if you catch one in the eye. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I said was, “If you ever do this again, I’ll tell everyone. And if that doesn’t work, I’ll blind you.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Atticus said to his daughter, “I’m your man, then. From the looks of you, Miss Priss, it’ll be the blind leading the blind.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

For Dr. Atchley, who’s doing some of the foremost research in the field, the questions suggest he’s awoken from his own blind faith in technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Presently, groping and fumbling in the dark, they found that the opening on the left was blocked: either it was a blind, or else some great stone had fallen in the passage. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The factory made a few rubber toys as a blind. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He thinks of Granny, not yet this old, but blind, forgetful, full of needs that must be cared for and tales everyone half listens to. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Put that behind you. He’s an old, blind man now.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brothers Joked that he had been given the two ugliest men in the Night's Watch; being blind, he was spared having to look at them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

This way and that he flung around the cavern searching for his tormentors, but, blind as he was, they were able to slip away from him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The spotlight is almost blinding when he walks out, but he knows something. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I guess if you are bom blind, it is not so bad. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I writhed in a blind panic as the leather strap tightened, cutting off all airflow. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

In view of all this, we must ask, to what extent has affirmative action helped us remain blind to, and in denial about, the existence of a racial undercaste? The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Just as suddenly, the pressure eased, and the blackness exploded into blinding white light. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her tears streamed down her face, blinding her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And that the rest of the servants, in blind ignorance, would follow her example and swear too? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

All he deserved to live in was some filthy sty, some blind hole in the ground. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The nights were blinding cold and casket black and the long reach of the morning had a terrible silence to it. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

"Even a blind man could see the Hound loathed his brother." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I looked back at the telekinetic girl, pulling the blind brothers along by their hands while they clicked with their tongues. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“If we try to go any farther, we’ll be wandering blind.” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

"There are lots of blind people in the world. You'll marry a nice blind man someday." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then, without warning, the cheetah shot out from the shade with blinding speed, rocketing right at us. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

And all for one old lady who was nearly blind. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing met her gaze but hills, blinding white with flowers, and the glimmering river climbing up into the mountains. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Roosevelt’s blind eye wasn’t the only injury that he kept secret. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

Matty took the blind man’s arm and guided him to the right side of a turning in the path. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Leader told the blind man that Matty and Kira had made it through the first night and were well into the second day. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It had become a blind race into darkness, under a moon drowned in heavy clouds. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“It would be very convenient. Extremely convenient,” he added, aware that the blind man liked it when he exercised his vocabulary. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it had always been so and she had not noticed, because she was blinded by the brightness of Curt. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

When they were lost to view, she turned, stumbling as one that is blind, and went back to her lodging. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure if he can see me, though, because the sun hasn’t completely set and is probably blinding him. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

However much things may appear to change—the sea may shift from whisper to rage, the sky might go from fresh blue to blinding white to darkest black—the geometry never changes. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, no! She is blinded! And look! The savage is moving to another spot from which to waylay this innocent white maiden!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

She watched helplessly, almost, blind from her tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As I looked over my shoulder, the car blinded me, flashing its brights. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Adam could see the glinting heat in the brown eyes, and as he looked he saw the lips writhe back from the teeth and the blind destructive animal take charge. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the boy and saw that he was blind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Don’t you remember the singles’ bars, the indignity of high school blind dates? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left eye was blind, his right eye mean. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Once they had been six, five whimpering blind in the snow beside their dead mother, sucking cool milk from her hard dead nipples whilst he crawled off alone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They might even have yawned if they only heard you yawn, because yawning is also aurally contagious: if you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they’ll yawn too. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight gleamed on their helmets and cheekguards and Hashed off their spearpoints, blinding. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streaks of sun caught on the airplane wings blind me so I can’t see her face. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He went to the sink, watching her as he walked, feeling that she could see him even though he knew that she was blind. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped by the blinds and turned around. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I was so terrified that you would be blind. But the news wasn’t all bad. They told me that you would not be blind. They told me that your eyes would heal, slowly.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She spots it through the Venetian blinds of their living room. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Half blinded after the successive flashes, I lost my bearings amongst hummocks, bumping shins against all points and stumbling into deep snowdrifts,” said Hurley. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But the majority didn’t seem to have noticed at all, as if they’d been struck deaf and blind. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

My head would reel sometimes, with mingled anger and pity for my poor blind black brothers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Werner sees the roving cane and opaque lenses of her glasses and realizes that she is blind. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

He looks back down at his work, blind to the impact his words have had on me. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Weaver brought the blind request to Raymond Fosdick, disguised as a grant application “for expediting the construction of the giant cyclotron, and for the purchase of certain associated equipment.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

"Good God, Eleanor, stop. You're blinding me. Is that why you keep that smile locked away, because it's too powerful for mortal man?" Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

At first they followed a path that he knew and it was easy for the blind man to tag on behind the other. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Ma says Jesus don’t go around making anyone blind, but Grandma Preston always used it as a warning and she went to church Sunday morning and evening both. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was near blind and could not see the comet, yet she claimed she could smell it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This truth did not blind them to the other truth, that wine was “the merry-maker,” lightening men’s hearts, bringing careless ease and fun and gaiety. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The top of Denna’s head banged into my nose, and I staggered, blinded with pain. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

My ring emitted a blinding flash of light, and a split second later my avatar was there, standing on the surface of Frobozz. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The angels launched new investigations, new policies and programs meant to fix the blind spots they’d created by claiming that the monsters were gone. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

He ran hard across the muddy schoolyard through drifting clouds of thick black and gray and white dust that choked and blinded him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Before entering, police deployed a flash-bang grenade, resulting in a blinding, deafening explosion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The August sun rolled up, hung at mid-heaven for a blinding hour, and at last wheeled westward before the journey was done. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The psychiatrist was this old guy who smelled weird and had a blinding white smile. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

She walks to the window and adjusts the horizontal blinds to let in sunlight. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The minute he disappeared, I whipped into the bathroom and, concealed behind the dirty, aluminum-colored Venetian blind, watched Irwin's monkish face appear in the door crack. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At eighteen, I temporarily went blind and mute and had boils on my arms. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Its retinas burned red in the blinding beam; it looked exhausted and crazed with fear. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The count was done by a blind man with your fat friend by his elbow. And Slynt names you a tum- cloak.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was very dangerous for the blind man to return. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Then the rains came, black and blinding, and forecastle and stemcastle both vanished behind a wall of water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The sanctuary was dim, and stepping inside I was blinded by a dazzle of candles. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

One of the police dogs had mounted the small kitchen table and was barking in a blind rage, snapping his fangs at Red through the window. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She knew the blind shopkeeper who sat on a stool in front of his shop nodding and saying, “Sabah-al-khair—Good morning”—to the air. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When it is light, the openness of the sea is blind­ing and frightening. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had never thought what it might be like to be blind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“She didn’t want to dump a blind guy,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

There was undoubtedly a blinding flash of light. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“You are blind. They don’t want us free. They just want liberty for themselves.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The guy comes into the room with a cart—carts are very popular here—as light creeps through the blinds. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Without the sun, the old houses weren’t blindingly khaki anymore. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But you don’t notice that you’re blind during saccades because your brain fills in the screen in your head to make it seem like you’re looking out of two little windows in your head. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning cracked bright and hard, blinding after the darkness of the ship. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was hidden somewhere behind the blinding glare, and it felt like the city itself was collapsing, pressing in, taking only the shallowest of breaths in the squeeze of lost space. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sunshine streams in through the blinds of our windows. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

And at the last of the journey, when Matt had run ahead with his treasured scrap of blue, the blind man had come alone. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Merry crawled on all fours like a dazed beast, and such a horror was on him that he was blind and sick. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The prince left it to Ricasso, his blind seneschal, to rise and propose the toast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The other was scrabbling down the side of her boot, on the camera’s blind side. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He was at it a long time, and I lost interest, closed the Venetian blind, and joined my sisters and brothers in front of the television set. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She thought she was blinded at first because the darkness was so total and sudden. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Then let it be on my head, so long as it is done. I am not so blind that I cannot see the shadow of the axe when it is hanging over my own neck." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She had a warrior’s heart, but the gods in their blind malice had given her the feeble body of a woman. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hinges meant that the blind would move almost like a liquid, filling whatever depression it was dropped into. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He sat in a corner like a man who is blind and dumb. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dogs fall silent at the edge of my spell, and where the king’s hall surmounts the town, the blind old Shaper, harp clutched tight to his fragile chest, stares futilely down, straight at me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Now, watch and learn," Whit said, and started demonstrating the blind handoff, a technique that usually only sprinters do during relays because of the momentum of the incoming runner. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

She knew with so much certainty the location of everything that she herself forgot that she was blind at times. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Cheskin set up a blind taste test with two hundred brandy drinkers. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The inside of the wagon is so dark that I feel as if I’ve gone blind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

I put the materials back into the cabinet, wipe off the table, raise the blinds, stuff my soggy volcano in a garbage bag, and go home to scrub the floors. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a sparkling, whiter-than-white winter morning, a morning of brusque sky, inky black branches, and the blinding, two-dimensional look of new snow. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Or you can try to make it on your own,” the man said finally, “but the world will have no pity for a blind boy.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Bailey said he stayed home to keep Mr. Murphy from stealing us blind. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see that the blind man’s face had taken on a worried look, too, at the news. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The wind blew the blinds back a couple times. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Banana leaves cover the dirty glass like papery window blinds leaving long narrow triangles for my eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next evening, while they prepared supper, he told the blind man he was planning to go. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

In the evenings they waited for him, chewing their cuds by the shed door, and the mule stood by the gate with blind marble eyes. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

For as long as I could remember, An Yi’s grandmother had lived with her only child—An Yi’s mother, Teacher Wei—An Yi’s father, and her elder sister, who was blind. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly and painfully they clambered down, groping, stumbling, scrambling among rock and briar and dead wood in the blind shadows, down and down until they could go no further. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The gunstock slammed back against my shoulder, and such a long streak of fire spouted from the gun barrel that it blinded me for a second; I couldn’t see a thing. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are blind, the sensation of falling can be terrifying. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was suffocating being here, surrounded by this noise, the surging crowds, and blinding splendor. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

It appears to be a building constructed by a blind contractor who didn't use an architect. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A Reb came over a rock, bayonet fixed, black thin point forward and poised, face seemed blinded, head twitched. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across from Laleh’s room was a sunroom—though it was dark now—with a huge window covered in Venetian blinds and a well-loved beige couch in front. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

From a distance I could see the small, dark mass of rock surrounded by a blinding halo of light and sea spray. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

I started groping around in front of me, like a blind guy, but without getting up or anything. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

The blind man, Seer, made his way through the lanes of Village, checking on the populace, assessing the well-being of each individual. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Jorge had one blind askew eye and poor vision in the other, he was bald, limping noticeably, haggard and frail and crotchety. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned a corner and staggered against a wall as pain stars blinded me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

We have allowed ourselves to be willfully blind to the emergence of a new caste system—a system of social excommunication that has denied millions of African Americans basic human dignity. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

At a blind trot, Taran was shoved through what seemed a large crowd of people. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

We bolted through the catacombs, Emma’s fire casting manic shadows across the walls, the blind boys clicking loudly with their tongues and shouting out “Left!” or “Right!” when we came to splits in the tunnel. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“And to Mrs. Dalton, I say: ‘Your philanthropy was as tragically blind as your sightless eyes!’ Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“The sextet of Robert Frobisher. He was an amanuensis for my father, when my father was too old, too blind, too weak to hold a pen.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He was momentarily blinded and slammed forward in the seat; smashing his head on the wheel. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

A line of blind kids holding on to a rope with one hand and white canes with the other tapped their way down the opposite wall. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I clenched my eyes and attempted to see what she meant by becoming blind. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The blind was ingenious in design and interest had already been expressed in the manufacturing rights—mostly by military representatives—but Artemis had resolved to sell the patent to a sporting goods multinational. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Otto yanked the cord that zipped their blinds to the top of the window frame, flooding the room with bright sunshine. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I am blind and deaf, and they are worms, she told herself. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Make sure you close the curtains again, you. If you sleep in that moonlight you’ll wake up blind.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

He remembers being unable to see anything at all; for the first hours he thought that perhaps, like his grandfather whom he was on his way to visit, he’d gone blind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He waited for rage or blinding revulsion to spur him. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When my dad found out I kept the blinds open—even a crack—he walked out to the sidewalk to make sure no one could see me from the street. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Daylight could not come in, but he was able to recognize it by the tenuous change in the cracks of the blinds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just a blind girl, just a servant of Him of Many Faces. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the Governor's right palm, a huge ball of light began to swirl, as blindingly bright as the center of a star. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The future was blind, but she couldn’t feel, truly, that it would be better without her in it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hitler considered those born blind or disabled, inferior. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“How can I help you? Oh Diana, I been so blind—” She touched Lyddie’s cheek lightly. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Obviously, the theme of the dream is vision. What am I not seeing? What are my blind spots?” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

“Zeus is not blind or deaf. He has not left Olympus completely undefended.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She ate fluffy eggs and thinly sliced salmon and crescents of fresh melon, watching Curt and his mother, both blindingly golden-haired. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Hi,” I chirped, and smiled brightly as if I were a blinding sun that had just risen. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Slow? But he’s all twisted. He can’t walk any other way,” the blind man said in surprise. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I scan the ceiling again and again—perhaps the lights have blinded me so much that I can no longer see him—but he’s nowhere to be seen now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She plunged through the kitchens and buttery, blind with panic, weaving between cooks and potboys. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

So much, also, for the alternative visions of blind old poets and dragons. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I cried for a long time, holding Stew Cat tight Aside from him, I was blind and alone on a forgotten cay. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

We are still too few and they are still too many, and without rangers, we ’re good as blind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Realizing what I wished, he flipped his palm up in one of those blindingly fast, disconcerting movements of his. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Lightning lanced through the sky like a trident, and for a second the entire island was lit up in brilliant blinding light. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“We have a hunting blind in the mountains. Hard to find.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wanted to jump up and point at the TV and say, “Are you people blind?! That’s me! Can you not see that that’s me?!” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The tears that kept Buttercup company the remainder of the day were not at all like those that had blinded her into the tree trunk. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Forest likes me,” he had proudly commented once to the blind man. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

On the great beast thundered, blundering in blind wrath through pool and thicket. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I guess blind people are allowed to whisper to themselves if they want to. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a loathsome little creature: he paddled a small boat with his large flat feet, peering with pale luminous eyes and catching blind fish with his long fingers, and eating them raw. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

People shouted below, and the light bouncing off the glass castle blinded her. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His blinding white linen shirt and richly-dyed blue vest reeked of money. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I pulled the blinds to let some sun in. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“So do I,” said Michael as, at the sound of Mary Poppins’s returning footsteps, he hurriedly pulled down the blind…. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Dad went straight to my window, pulled the blinds back, and opened it. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Navigating using instruments without being able to see the ground was known in the early days of aviation as “blind flying.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

We have become blind, not so much to race, but to the existence of racial caste in America. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Abruptly, we were almost blinded there upon the isle; the smoke of burning houses inhaled us, and we were within it. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

From attic trapdoors, blind robot faces peered down with faucet mouths gushing green chemical. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pet flexed her mother’s fingers, and its gold claws grew in length, the edge on them blinding. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Luke carefully slid the door shut behind him and straightened the blinds so he and Jen would be totally hidden. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

Grandpa Portman never mentioned that one of his neighbors was blind. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The blind man had cried out in anguish. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The last betrayal that sent Velutha across the river, swimming against the current, in the dark and rain, well in time for his blind date with history. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her letters described her secluded, melancholy life, and she referred to her husband with blind sympathy, as a fine, discreet, considerate man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I thought how convenient it would be now I didn't have to announce to everybody at college I had broken off with Buddy and start the boring business of blind dates all over again. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I was blind and we were lost at sea. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what it was like to be blind, completely blind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Village changed him and made him what he is now,” the blind man said. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was super old, well into her nineties, stooped and frail, completely blind. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

But now, for the first time in a long time, he remembered that he was blind—well and truly blind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The blind man was alone now, with his fear, since Leader had gone. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Still blind they went on for some little time, up and then gently down. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

A tongue of lightning came down so close it blinded her. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he was on his feet, turning, blind, his face congested, contorted with this rage, and the muscles leaping and swelling in his long, dark neck. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then the light was directly shining at them, dazzling, blinding. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The red eye of the tower had not been blind. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“I was blind and deaf. I could hardly pull myself together to keep on handling the combat of the regiment on the ground.” A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

There were many empty buildings with black windows, like blind eyes, buildings like skeletons standing with snow on their bones in the winter winds. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nearly blinded by the flying embers he had dashed water on his head and face, and his matted hair and begrimed skin added to his frightened looks made him seem like another person.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, I thought as the moon’s light blinded me, and the shadows grasped at me with green-brown fingers, I didn’t expect to see you here. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I see goats skipping along the rocky coast of Greece where the shepherds are blind because they married their mothers by mistake. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

For example, I learned that, once a month, the general suffered from blinding migraines that lasted almost a week. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“I think I’ve seen one. I thought he was just an old blind man.” Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

I could see a large gold tooth staring at me like the blinding sun and then the rest of her teeth opened wide as if she were going to swallow me down in one piece. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

A door slid open, and a blinding light popped on. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Mom must be near blind, because that’s some prescription in these glasses. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“Are you saying there’s no truth to what I said? If so, you’re blind.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She ran her fingertips all over them, feeling the stems, leaves, petals, smelling them like a blind person wanting to know what she could not see. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind,” Papa said. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Whitaker cracked at least one joke a day, usually tasteless: “I know a woman who will pay me one thousand dollars to see me in the nude: She’s blind.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In my blinding drive to excel, in my need to do things perfectly, I’d missed the signs and taken the wrong road. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“They say Tenorio returned today. He is blind in one eye.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You used to do pretty well for a blind man.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This time, a second, larger orb kicked on, nearly blinding him with the strength of its Jade light. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

That morning the room was darker than ever because the blinds had been pulled almost all the way down. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

For four weeks of that hot summer he lay blind, and deaf, and mute, though at times he moaned and cried out like an animal. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

In blind fear I let the stick fly, feeling it crack against a boy’s skull. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He remembered that he had slept for the afternoon, glad that the blind man had not been at home to ask why. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

‘Here all are enemies of the one Enemy, and yet I must walk blind, while the sun is merry in the woodland under leaves of gold!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

When he awoke, he was blind, and the trees were gone. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The only light comes through the Venetian blinds and leads in strips across the rucked covers, the comforter. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A rolling billow of smoke surged toward her, choking and blinding her until it passed. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He felt his sister had been insulted when she was forced to marry a blind king, and for that he swore destruction on your ancestors. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The darkness was complete—at least for his unadjusted eyes, after being out in the blinding sun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I can’t help it,” he had argued glumly to the blind man, in the beginning of their life together, when he had been caught in some small transgression. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

At the end of the corridor the electric light went on, blinding after the darkness. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“This is the problem with their blind commitment to these experiments,” Nita says next to us, as if sliding the words into the empty spaces of our minds. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

In a blinding sheet, mingled with hail, it drove against the cliff, bitter cold. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The paint is peeling, and the windows have sheets in them instead of blinds and curtains. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

As I walked, the ridiculous words drummed themselves into my head over and over again, rising to the rhythm of a buzzing noise: Three blind mice... three blind mice, See how they run! Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

He stood and watched Tenorio’s truck pull away and disappear in the blinding snow. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew he had been turning a blind eye to telltale signs that things were moving in this direction. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

I went into the sunshine and walked home like a blind man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know,” she confided to Adams, “my friendship for that gentleman has lived through his faults and errors—to which I have not been blind. I believe he remains our friend.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

We sit there for a few minutes watching the shadows created by the blowing tree limbs outside of his plastic blinds. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But Nick came up on his blind side when he saw the spin and knocked the ball away. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Let another mole push up blind from the depths and speak. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had the feeling that talking to a blind person was like talking to someone whom he himself could scarcely see. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It takes us nearly two hours to go the scan't distance to the Spencers’ farm because we have to walk slower than a blind turtle. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

We came to a shallow blind inlet ringed by a thick fringe of mossy green growth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“I wouldn’t follow you off a sinking ship,” said Melina, who was just getting the shaking blind brothers to their feet again. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

“You gained much on your journey. But you are still blind to the most important truth. Perhaps a glimpse is in order.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

When I met First Wife, I thought she was blind. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pong shielded his eyes against the blinding orb light. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The light swung at us and blinded us. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you just try to blind me with toast? What the hell is wrong with you?” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

It was now a dull gold, not blindingly shining like it had been against Brahmasura. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Because I'm shut inside a small room with a blind girl and her father. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a blind panic I ran for the garage. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The blinds are bent in the left corner. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“They didn’t have to blind you,” he said sadly, “but people are cruel.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“A lie. I know you. You are that blind beggar girl.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I said, “Richard Parker, is something wrong? Have you gone blind?” as I waved my hand in his face. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl rolled onto her side, sat up, sprang to her feet, stretched. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I wondered how it stayed so vibrant in the Yazd sun, which bleached everything else to blinding white. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I heard the blind boy ask me, and I turned to look at him. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

As a deaf man might have better eyesight, or a blind man can hear so much more, I feel an extra sense growing. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Do I mean! If you don’t know what I mean, you are blind.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Ignatius! They only hire blind people and dummies to make brooms and things.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

His left eye was going blind and was covered by a film the color and consistency of diluted milk. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The young man bent down and took the blind man’s bird from the trap. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I’m a good shooter, but I never tried to shoot blind. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

I picked up my books and tossed one upward as hard as I could, in a blind aim to hit my attackers. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eleven months old, Gerhard had been born blind and with deformed limbs. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

But still the hatred of the Watcher lurked behind them, blind for a while, perhaps, but undefeated, still bent on death. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“She says she is blind to most faults.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

And sure, he was told Grandpop was blind, but he wanted to play it safe—the whole blind thing might’ve been a bluff, a theory that seemed a lot less silly after what happened next. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Always he watched ahead, though his eyes in the moonless night could see no more than the painted eyes aside the boat’s blind prow. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I look out the window, through the blinds, into the night. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you serious? You really believe that? Are you blind?” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

How could he have been so blind as not to see how dangerous it might be for him to alienate the one impartial party, his one potential ally? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The house was incredibly dark, so dark that Flora wondered if she had gone temporarily blind. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Maybe the lines they draw have meaning to them that the rest of the arachnid world is blind to. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Each was blind to the other’s being, Ged as baffled by impalpable shadows as the shadow was baffled by daylight and by solid things. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He moved the blind aside just enough to see out into Pibb Street. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

If you think or feel that he does, then you, too, are blinded by a feeling as terrible as that which you condemn in him, and without as much justification. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He would have caught me if I had not, in my blind panic, tumbled over a cliff. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

They were expected to look straight at him and go blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There is no woman more lovely than Your Grace. Only a blind man could believe otherwise, and Daario Naharis was not blind.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Like the colorful tapestry on the wall of the blind man’s house, this was a landscape. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was a young museum, eager to build a world-class collection, and the kouros was such an extraordinary find that its experts were blinded to their instincts. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

I rush over to the window and lift a blind myself. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was swimming blind, but at least I was swimming. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There’s a glare, which is a little blinding wherever he is, but I can still make out his light brown face. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She spit out the words fast, sending them hurtling toward me like photons from the sun, and I didn’t see them coming until they blinded me. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

“Let’s fix them up on a blind date! Can you imagine? Miss Butt, meet Mr. Tushman. Mr. Tushman, here’s Miss Butt. They could get married and have a bunch of little Tushies.” Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The view was still blocked by a Venetian blind, which he hoisted clatteringly. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On every side of me the red and blue and white jacketed skiers tore away down the blinding slope like fugitive bits of an American flag. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I put the blind back to how it was, checked I'd left no other traces of my incursion, slipped out, and flew downstairs to see who it was. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“It’s just a temporarily blind boy,” said Flora. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

Deep below the surface of the sea, far beyond the warm reach of sunlight, it will be a blind world, with no difference between night and day. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Only a blind wild cat would fail to react to such a stare. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

There were about ten in all, and they floated into the blinding light without a sound. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The blinds were half-raised, and outside, I watched pieces of trash blowing down the street. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The marchers, blinded and choking, stumbled back onto the bridge and began a hasty retreat as troopers and possemen went after them on foot and on horseback. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The appalling broad orange-and-green check of the jacket and trousers almost blinded the onlooker. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

They said there would be a fierce blinding light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I can talk about it. I've only been blind for about two years." Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The glare. I feel like someone rubbed broken glass into my eyes. I swear, if I knew it would stop the shimmering, I would blind myself.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stumbled forward, clawing at the air as if he’d suddenly gone blind. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I reached the corner, but a swift glance revealed that it was only a blind drive to the back of another building. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her arms stretched in front of her as if she were blind, Violet made her way across the stage, stepping carefully around pieces of furniture and startled actors. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Because I’m not blind to how Harry works, you know,” she said. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

The old Shaper, a man I cannot help but admire, goes out the back window with his harp at a single bound, though blind as a bat. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

So I went down to Quincey and took him into the breakfast-room, where the blinds were not drawn down, and which was a little more cheerful, or rather less cheerless, than the other rooms. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The blind sip test is the wrong context for thin-slicing Coke. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

First the nightmare: I’m running down a long corridor, half blinded by the swirls of dust. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I was a statue, staring blind out a window held together with packing tape. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

"If Dad were here,” Bill said, "he’d probably blind him, like they did back in Lady Godiva’s day.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is a different kind of fear—nervous panic rather than blind terror. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She had fallen back on her pillow asleep; she did not even wake when I had pulled up the blind and let in the sunlight which flooded the room. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

He had, in fact, no wish to end his days at the library—half blind or otherwise—and every hope of earning his squint lines by looking at the horizon. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

At first he only told her that he wanted to set her up on a "blind date," but she refused. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z

Charles felt for his brother the affection one has for helpless things, for blind puppies and new babies. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Percy didn’t remember the old blind man muttering a final curse, but as Phineas dissolved and returned to the Underworld, he probably hadn’t wished Percy a long and happy life. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Desperately, he fought through it, the blades scratching at his face, half blinding him as he tried to find his way back to the main path. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The blind statues and the singing fountains filled with dry leaves, bird droppings, and moss. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I lie there blinded, completely helpless. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“You are amazing,” he cried, as Inigo increased the already blinding speed of the blade. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

I’m staggering down the sidewalk, sun blinding my eyes, careening from car to telephone pole, trying to get away from the truth, from the frenzy of emotions chasing me down. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

One teenager was whittling at a lump and not paying me the blindest bit of notice. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Matty noticed the young couple who were neighbors down the road from the house he shared with the blind man. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

It was as if he’d gone blind and couldn’t shake himself awake. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes you'd think she was deaf, dumb, and blind, he thought. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

By increments we were blinded, the mainland dimming and the sun fading to a pale white bloom, and we turned circles in the eddying tide until we’d lost all sense of direction. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Did Mother want to become blind and not see the world outside our window? Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

The overhead light blinds me, and I take a deep breath and hold it. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered my father's story of how he had been beaten blind in a crooked fight, of the scandal that had been suppressed, and how the fighter had died in a home for the blind. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The writing was kind of a blinding kaleidoscopic view of my life. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

From this window here, a boy once yelled, Watch where you’re going, are you blind? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, he reaches his arm overhead and pulls the blind closed. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Walter’s case taught me that fear and anger are a threat to justice; they can infect a community, a state, or a nation and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

The blinding flash and raging fireball looked just like the ones at Trinity—only this time, there was a city underneath. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment she wondered if she might not have gone blind. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The blind man was sitting with his instrument on his lap. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The window blinds were kept at an angle exactly as I liked them. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Does he see something evil inside me that I'm too blind to face? An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But on his return, in search for his mother, the fire snake’s blind eyes could not see her, and he flew too close and too fast.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The sun was blinding white on the porcelain-blue water below and on the flashing edges of the other airplanes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t fair to throw in a blind black man who came to eat. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

I watched her slow, careful progress down the steps, her back bent, both hands gripping the rail, as if she were blind and had to feel her way. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I don’t care if I blind oncoming traffic. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Why don't they turn out those lights, blinding me, here he comes, stick, stick, uh . The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Indentured servants complain all the time and steal us blind at the first opportunity. I’ll never hire another.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room is covered in darkness—the lights are off, and the blinds and curtains are closed. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The Court’s blind eye to race discrimination in the criminal justice system has been especially problematic in policing. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thug said, “Shoot, I knew she had to be either old or crazy to have anything to do with that man. How old was she, eighty, and was she blind?” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

But this new idea about himself—face blind—didn’t make him feel better. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“So now we find a blind man in the rain ” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He was blindingly intelligent, and effortlessly surpassed his brother in everything they undertook together. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Across the empty streets, across the square, they were just pulling the blinds up at the bank. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The changes pulled against themselves inside him; the mule had been blind and old. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Why can’t you stop talking? Do you want me to blind you?” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

There the flawed became whole, the blind sighted, and the lame and halt threw away their crutches. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had gradually grown blind; his eyes slowly filled with a sky-blue film of which he said, “The clouds are taking over my sight.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course the sheets weren’t on the furniture when Granny had lain in state in there, but even then, because of her being dead and all, the blinds were closed and the draperies drawn. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The girl could have been blind and his sweetheart; after all, she was pretty. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Are you so blind, or is it that you do not wish to see? What do you think will happen when all these enemies are dead?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

But the blind man paid no attention to that. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Aside from their blinding brightness, there was another odd thing about Milton’s home movies: like Hitchcock, he always appeared in them. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Their eyes during these conversations look dewy, blurred, pulpy, easily hurt, like the eyes of blind baby kittens; but also sly and speculative, and filled with greed and deceit. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As always, Matty was amazed at the capacity of the blind man’s perceptions. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And there's something about the blind way that hand moves that’s creepy. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

My inner ears were used to confirmation from my eyes as to how I stood; they got none; I might as well be blind. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of a separate cage a mother rat lay over her litter of blind naked children and let them suckle and the mother stared about nervously and fiercely. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I feel a blinding urge to grab hold of Piper’s throat. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

The car would thunder past, leaving you blinded in yellow fog. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was in full bloom, blinding me as I tried to look for a crooked fork in the road ahead. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

But when I turn around to see who it is, all I see are crowds of people and cameras flashing and blinding me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

In blind tastes of some of the early prototypes, Coke pulled even with Pepsi. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

The blind man gave a sigh that was clearly one of relief. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“It actually did blind our friend Isaac,” I said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

But there was a light in his eyes that was almost blinding. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The Board shall maintain a separate building on separate grounds for the instruction of all blind persons of the colored race. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The captain closes his office door, sets the bag atop his desk, and pulls his blinds. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

But in another way, he was relieved to see the blind man shake his head no. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There’s an inherent flaw in the plan that both Gale and I were too blind to see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Judging Kenna without that additional information is like making people choose between Pepsi and Coke in a blind taste test. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

"He was so dead tired, he didn't hear the burglars when they broke in. They stole us blind. They even stole my shoes and my under—" The grandmother remembers it is indelicate to say so. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He had known his sort in King’s Landing—fawning to his superiors, harsh to his inferiors, as blind as he was boastful and too proud by half. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ignatius slammed the telephone down, pressed a quarter into the palm of his still sniffling, blinded mother, and waddled to his room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy had come up softfoot, or perhaps he had been there all along; in this blind black world, Bran could not have said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

X bridged his hand over his eyes—the light over the bed seemed to be blinding him—and said that Loretta’s insight into things was always a joy. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, at that moment he was blinded by his twin obsessions: to destroy Lyra and to possess her mother. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The blind man yelled in triumph and killed the power on his weed whacker. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They blind me and taste salty and unfamiliar on my lips. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We had spent the past two nights in the blind inn-keeper’s stable. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On page four, I read: Boy blinded over segregated bathroom, suspects questioned. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know what the blind man meant. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The shame and anger we felt for having allowed ourselves to be duped crept into our blows and blood ran into our eyes, half blinding us. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was blind in her left eye, but she seemed to have no trouble examining Shae’s injuries. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then on the fourth day, he was rewarded: One panel of one of the blinds on an upstairs window flipped quickly up and down at eleven o’clock. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was shielding her face, as though blinded by light, though the Top Box was not brightly lit. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

With the dogs’ howling cut off behind them, Aru and Mini went from utter darkness to blinding light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She grabbed a burrito in her clawed feet, but before she could escape, the blind man swung his weed whacker and smacked her in the back so hard, Percy winced. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Bran, come back. Come back now, Bran. Bran ...” He closed his third eye and opened the other two, the old two, the blind two. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He could imagine Mr. Grin blinded, fighting for control. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

As if we aren’t blinded enough, the officer beams his flashlight in our faces. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Love is blind, as they say, but why argue? Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But today I’m not mad, I’m serious: “Something awful and terrible happened in there, David, and if you ever tell anyone, even your ma and dad, may Jesus make you blind.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was no pampered lady, blind to such things. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“It is partially blind,” panted Griphook, “but even more savage for that. However, we have the means to control it. It has learned what to expect when the Clankers come. Give them to me.” Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sun was rising from wherever it rose, behind the distant factories maybe, or over the blind river. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Rocks and small reefs that I did not know were under the sea stood bare in the blinding light. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man had been given the true name Seer and was respected for the special vision that he had behind his ruined eyes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

By the time she arrived the headache was blinding, pulsing, driving out all thought. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

After Johnson left, Colonel Meecham walked to his window and peeked through the venetian blinds at the jet planes, their wings folded, sitting just outside the hangar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through the Troll Hole, a white light blinded me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

I wished I could tell her it was going to be okay, but all I did was maneuver to Ikwa’s blind side, take Otto in my arms, and slink away. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

They all whistled at the amount of blinding metal. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Your evil bird has blinded me!” he cried. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although she was already a hundred years old and on the point of going blind from cataracts, she still had her physical dynamism, her integrity of character, and her mental balance intact. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Cinco estrellitas—five stars, five little sisters, traveling through my domain in the sky. A warning for all to see, to let them pass unharmed. You are not dumb. You are not blind.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The brightness of the morning sun blinded me for a moment. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

By the sink, the blind man was putting food into Matty’s backpack. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

"My learned counsel was blind, too. I say this is a gloomy subject. Are we going down and see these bulls unloaded or not?" The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Can you really be so blind, she wanted to say We don’t talk anymore, you boss me around, you keep to yourself, you’re not interested in my garden. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

That must be what it’s like to be blind. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Or maybe it was just because it went so well with blind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Blow, blow, blow. He cannot see. He is blind now. Make him lean away from the wind so he is easier to knock down.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still he drives, drives, until finally the emergency room smiles, that blinding white into which he must give his sister up. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it made me angry—so blindingly angry—that everything had failed us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But somewhere ahead, through the blinding storm, he knew there was warmth and light. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

His chess prowess and velvet tongue may have blinded some people to his despicable past, proving the adage that sometimes chess players make strange team fellows. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

They included preserving the last words of dying people, recording books for blind people to hear, announcing clock time, and teaching spelling. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

It took to the air, flapping its wings in his face, slowing him, blinding him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

"Oh, no need to tell me, no need. I'm not blind yet. The old man can still read a map." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He watched with gratitude as the blind man moved through the lanes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The geese furiously flapped and pecked and wrapped their wings around the robot faces, clinging to the RECOs like feathery masks, distracting them, blinding them. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

In the dim light of the streetlamp that filtered through the drawn blinds, I could see the pin curls on her head glittering like a row of little bayonets. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The drink had a queer, bitter taste that the blind girl soon learned to loathe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Quiet he lay while blinding death passed by. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Don’t get sore at me,” she said, blind to the future. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Katz lingered in my blind spot, so that he was little more than a shadow in the corner of my eye. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

I get up and peek through the blinds, and Theodore Finch is standing in my front yard dressed in pajama bottoms and a dark hoodie. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Early morning light filtered through closed blinds and drawn curtains. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The graduation march begins, and cameras are flashing, blinding me to the point where I almost miss Mama sitting in the last row. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He tossed the bottle aside, shrugged his shoulders and walked into the blinding snowstorm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stood in the doorway and he looked at her light-grey blind eyes, eyes almost as white as her face and hair and dress. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to hear about it!” shrieked the poor blind Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She peers out the window through the slats in the broken blinds. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Its thin leather strap stretched from being fastened around the waist to the last hole, and was now a hardened leather with a blinding, mean snap. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I go over to the window and carefully lift one corner of the drawn blind. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Hundreds of thousands of people of color are swept into this system and released every year, yet we rationalize the systematic discrimination and exclusion and turn a blind eye to the suffering. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

“You will become blind and live in a corner forever if you keep on crying,” she warned as she slammed her eyes shut for a moment to show me blindness. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

And Old Ikwa, nearly blind and an easy victim to peer pressure, had ambled along behind. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sun streams through the blinds and brings no answers, only more questions. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Leader put a reassuring arm across the blind man’s shoulders. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Once she realized that none of us understood what she was talking about, she explained, "What I mean is, we're gonna do blind handoffs." Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

The lights blinded me for a second and then I ducked into the bushes again. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Those who supported slavery and Jim Crow, he argued, typically were not bad or evil people; they were just blind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

His mom wasn’t blitzed enough to be blind to what was happening. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Another time, to blind Felicia for a week with a blow to her eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I keep looking up searching for dark clouds, but all I see is blinding blue. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The tall man began to babble, his voice little more than a terrified sobbing, “Oh God. Tam, my eyes. I’m blind?’ The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But in the west I could see the summer sun was already low, hovering in its own blinding light before it wedded night. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I reach the sidewalk and stop, blinded by the sun. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

A blinding light atop the camera flashed on. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Republican Party, eager to score points against President Truman, a Democrat, accused him of being "soft on communism" and willing to turn a blind eye to subversives in his own administration. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

With images of that childhood car crash blinding me, I drove my feet into and through the back of the driver’s seat. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Like Ploetz, Siemens realized that genetic cleansing could be justified only if scientists could first establish heredity: you could justify sterilizing a blind man only if you could establish that his blindness was inherited. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

She looked up and met his gaze, her expression so assured of her own equality with the Grand Elder that he found himself speechless in the face of such blind insolence. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

If he wasn’t completely blind, he had to be pretty dam dose. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man followed the other’s advice, and put his trap in a place where birds might come for water. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The phantom memory of the blinding pain lanced through her hand. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

With my eyes temporarily blinded from the flashbulb, I moved toward the center where everyone was. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

The blind man had entered only once, to return to his original village when it needed his wisdom. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The perspiration ran from her forehead and blinded her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

It’s yellow brick with a spiral staircase and a two-story foyer and vertical blinds. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

She wondered how long he had been blind. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

We were promptly acquitted and I saw firsthand that justice was not at all blind. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With my hands I checked the knots and lashings incessantly, trying to read them the way a blind man would read Braille. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The rats ran away, tails lashing, eyes blind with panic. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, he takes the scarf from around his neck, wraps it around my eyes, and blinds me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Among the loveliest was the Temple of Thakra, at which a dozen master sculptors had labored for forty years, two of them going blind in the process. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Once they were gone, the blinding rainbow shut off like a spotlight. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s not nonsense, Mr. Jankowski,” she says, going to the window and opening the blinds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

For two, perhaps three seconds, a gigantic, blinding white shard of glass from a broken cosmic window danced in the sky insubstantial yet over­whelmingly powerful. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

It made me so mad for a minute it kind of blinded me. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I think we’re too brave and too blind,” I answer, drinking seriously now. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“STUPEFY!” roared twenty voices — there was a blinding series of flashes and Harry felt the hair on his head ripple as though a powerful wind had swept the clearing. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The distant gramophone stuck now, suddenly, on a grinding, wailing, sardonic trumpet-note; this blind, ugly crying swelled the moment and filled the room. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Gone out on a blind date that’s been engineered by my mom.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lyra sipped the milk and lifted a corner of the blind to watch the dark wharves move past. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Then turning toward the door, blinded by water and light, Ben spit back, “Yeah, Dad, and this little girl just whipped you good.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once my bed is flat and as low as it will go, I roll onto my side and stare out the Venetian blinds at the blue sky beyond. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The instant he does, blinding light pours out of the Crystal Ball, so bright I have to cover my eyes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

A blinding reflection, like a mirror makes in sunlight, is flashing at me. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

But Ged paid him for it in sorcerers’ kind, healing his eyes of the cataracts that were in the way of blinding him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

If I don’t look away, I will be blinded. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

"No. Did we have one? I must have been blind." The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She endeavoured to persuade herself that she did not regret it; but she could no longer be blind to Miss Bingley’s inattention. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

“Now, would you like me to open the blinds and let the good Lord’s sun shine in on you, or would you rather sit here in pitch darkness all day long?” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

My mom explained that blind people develop their other senses to make up for the sense they’ve lost. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

In the sealed-off passageways, beyond blind alleys, that I would never see. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

And when I didn’t look at the ground, I was blind and would sometimes get to school and not know how. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

The red sun blinds me, churns up my belly to nausea, and the heat thrown out of the bone-fire burns my skin. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man reached out his hand and the puppy scampered to it and licked his fingers. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He’d wave the toy furiously and then there’d be an awful, blinding, roaring flash that shook the room and deposited a fine ash all over us and the floor. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was growing lighter; without taking his eyes from Mina’s face, Dr. Van Helsing motioned me to pull up the blind. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

When it blew into their faces, it would drive the snow into their eyes and leave them as good as blind. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Adam moved the slats of the blind so that the late afternoon sun would not shine in his eyes, and he gazed down at the harsh parallel lines the sun threw on his desk. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

I kept him under my shirt, so he was both blinded and close to my body. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Light glowing through the blinds every morning, enough for my father to read by. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

My mother said we were the three stooges, and Jazz said we were the three blind mice, but whatever. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

She put her cup on a lamp table and was opening the blinds when she saw Henry’s car turn into the driveway. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Unsure which way was up, Davos wrestled the river in blind panic until suddenly it broke the surface. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One man had been blinded by a blow to his head in the battle by the Wall, another lamed when his falling horse crushed his legs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blind man crumpled the message and dropped it into the fire. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The young man was impressed with the wisdom of the blind man, who knew a great deal, although he could see nothing at all. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And then he sees a stiff blind horse and thinks it’s the saddest thing he’s ever seen. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

There was a blind innkeeper and his sighted wife, who was the cook, and their two young daughters, who worked as waitresses and maids. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a moment of blinding pain and the taste of blood in his mouth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Either you weren’t yelling loud enough to begin with, or the people around you are deaf, dumb, and blind. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The sun nearly blinded her, and she heard him whisper behind her: “So long, baby. Be good.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His eyes were wide open but did not see, and she knew at once that he was blind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Frank explained about the blind seer Phineas in Portland, and how Iris had said that he might be able to tell them where to find Thanatos. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

When her cup was presented to her, the blind girl wrinkled her nose and drank it down in three long gulps. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The procession crossed the blinding plaza and passed in front of the church. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

If Annabelle ran on US Route 12 and not the desolate 200, she’d be facing blind curves, and navigating tight spaces next to guardrails and steep, forested cliffs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I squinted to look at it, though I was nearly blinded by the dust. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

I zoom out a bit to find more trains and I’m nearly blinded by all the light. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I saw so much red that it blinded me to any flags. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“So mole and blind are two words more beautiful than have ever yet been written?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

None of us could figure out why we had been blinded. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She kept her blind eyes drilled on Ivan for several breaths, neither of them moving or making a sound. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

“Goodness, I must be blind, I can’t see a thing. When do classes start? Wednesday?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Poor Pittini was so old and blind he didn’t even realize what was happening, but kept right on intoning the Kyrie as the assassin was being wrestled to the ground. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cauldron was simmering, sending its diamond sparks in all directions, so blindingly bright that it turned all else to velvety blackness. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then, when darkness came the next night, he had led the blind man back again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Nobody could doubt he spoke the truth; he was already old and wise when the most elderly among them was a blind hairless mite, puling and whimpering for a feed from its mother. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As he made to leap the low wall of stones straight at the shadow, the staff burned suddenly white, a blinding light in that dim place. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Now he turned to the blind man again and tugged at his sleeve to be certain he was paying attention. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t know any other old blind men. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

He did not bother to disguise the blind man’s trap, as it was hot and he was eager to get home to his new wife. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

It’s handy when you want to avoid coming right out and saying something: Your blind date is not unattractive. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In short, organized religion made blacks blind to, or avoid or seek to escape from, reality. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He is American,” warned my mother, as if I had been too blind to notice. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did tell her she better close the blinds every mornin’ and keep the sheets on the loveseat and all. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

“My dear Old Grasshopper, we are finished! Every one of us is about to perish! I may be blind, you know, but that much I can see quite clearly!” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sheets of rain blinded me as I hurried to the graveyard. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

It had been one of those fights where one party is so enraged, so blind with anger they have to kill the other. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

I open my eyes, blinded by the intense light. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wash blinked into the blinding light of the headlamps. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

One day he had found his way to Village for the first time, and had met the blind man there. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The blind man sensed the breeze entering the open windows and lifting an edge of the tapestry on the wall. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a blind greyhound he found in the park tormented by children. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I was blind, unforgivingly jealous of what had happened to him. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Ikwa started to follow me, but he passed too near a tree on his blind side and smacked into it. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

I squinted, holding a hand up to the blinding blanket of white light that seemed to settle over my vision. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

The wicked brother, through trickery, coached the blind brother to kill the beloved one with an enchanted dagger of mistletoe.’” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

The crier soon came, leading that man of song whom the Muse cherished; by her gift he knew the good of life, and evil—for she who lent him sweetness made him blind. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gandalf felt the ground with his staff like a blind man. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

“The yard still has blind zones, like the one we were in. How many of us will have to get hit in the head with a horseshoe before this changes?” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They don’t know anything about it yet. I might be blind in that eye.” The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Boy21 pulls the blinds and turns off the lights so that his stars glow a weird green, and then he presses Play on his CD player and lies down between us. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps, he thought wildly, he could blind the beast as it clawed at him, trying to drag him from between the rocks . A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

But in this instance, hindsight does not make us clairvoyant so much as blind to the ghosts and goblins that floated above the political landscape in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

If the gods are good and the guards are blind, she may pass. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Their faces had a likeness a blind man could have seen; several wore the badge of the Twins, two towers connected by a bridge. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She moved the blind a little and peered out. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I think this is what it feels like to be blind. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was hoping any potential buyers would be deterred by the thought of a fresh paint job and replacement blinds, but that wasn't the case. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Grasse needed his word in order to account for the ability of such tiny, blind, and relatively brainless animals to erect structures of such vast size and internal complexity. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she was gone, Toby pulled the blinds down and looked at David. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“Well, I certainly noticed it. You must be blind or something.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

That was the day she shut the drapes and blinds and locked the doors. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I’d like to see that book,” the blind man said, and then, laughing at himself, added, “or have you see it, and read it to me. “What came next?” Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Stepping out of the sunlight into the dark building temporarily blinds me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tug at the blind so that it rolls up a bit. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

You and mom were too blinded by your own fear to see me standing in front of you, almost broken. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Like you, when you came,” the blind man said with a smile. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

And the Doctorita—ancient, nearly blind, and wrinkled like a raisin—laughs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In an impossible move, Ripred tore out one’s throat with his teeth while his back feet blinded the second. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But still it came forward, lifting up to him a blind unformed snout without lips or ears or eyes. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

And at his heels there walked a dragfooted sheepdog, gray of muzzle, and with pale, blind old eyes. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

And out of the end of his wand burst, not a shapeless cloud of mist, but a blinding, dazzling, silver animal. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Then like a blinding red flash the message of the lantern bored its way into my brain. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was struck and slapped with small, sharp pebbles, and the snow blinded him. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He silently slid the screen door back and stepped past the hanging blinds into the Sports Family’s house. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was blinded by the sudden flash in the room, but I knew I connected. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The pain blinds me—my swollen leg trembles from the impact, and I can feel a gush of fresh blood on my bandages. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Above their heads the blind of one of the sleeping car compartments was pushed aside and a young woman looked out. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blinding crimson flare from the corner of the workshop as the fog began to catch fire, sending up strangely angular tongues of violent red flame. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“A waste of words. The peasants might as well be blind for all they ever see.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

This, to me, was a spectacle of glory; and yet, because it had condemned me, because it was blind and ignorant, I felt that it was a spectacle of horror. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanings inscribed by God in the forms of things, the great chain of being, sympathy and antipathy, natural magic, had been replaced by blind mechanisms and inexorable laws. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

But Shady wasn’t blind and it was painfully obvious that Jinx got nervous anytime Sheriff Dean was within a stone’s throw. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Bigger saw his mother straighten suddenly and stare at the blind white woman. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A blinding flash of white fire streaked through the lobby, through the open entrance door, and burst into a chrysanthemum of color in the night sky. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in that clear instant of consciousness I opened my eyes to a blinding flash. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood a moment looking through the cracks into the humming fire, blindingly red now; then he went into the driveway, through the falling snow to the street. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bran thought it curious that this pup alone would have opened his eyes while the others were still blind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I plug the phone in to charge, pull the blind up and open the window, then go to the bathroom and run a cold shower. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tore the book open and flicked the pages and felt them as if he were blind, he picked at the shape of the individual letters, not blinking. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

After the darkness of Nyx, even the dim red glow of Tartarus seemed blinding. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

At first he thought he had gone blind. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

“I’m not blind, you know. He looks a little like Paul Newman.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was robbing these folks blind, charging them a hundred percent markup on his cheap goods, and he was worried about them stealing from him! The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You could trade for a kiss,” the blind man suggested with a chuckle. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I walked out onto the stage, stepping into the blinding lights wearing high heels and a white suit, to give Barack a congratulatory hug before turning to wave with him at the whipped-up audience. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

I sat there for surely an hour, staring at a daylit hole in the window blind, without smoking or taking off my coat or loosening my necktie. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Vetch could see nothing else on the water; the battering wave-tops filled his eyes and blinded him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

Tears blinded my eyes, but the running got rid of the sick feeling inside. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I raised the blind, and the morning sunlight flooded the room, I heard the Professor’s low hiss of inspiration, and knowing its rarity, a deadly fear shot through my heart. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

One time, when I was in a blind in a tree, waiting motionless for game to wander by, I dozed off and fell ten feet to the ground, landing on my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

To survive, he ate worms and snails and other sluggish, deaf, and blind little creatures that inhabited the soft, mysterious soil. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He almost screamed at the unfairness, at the injustice—the blind in charge of finding the hidden, sure, that made so much sense. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Legally, as well as for all practical purposes, he was blind. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

“A strange trade for him to have made,” the blind man commented. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“Be careful. He might be blind, but he’s still dangerous,” I told the girls. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

And even Coach was blind to how that could build up. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

The blind was drawn but I found a rift at the sill. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

When Khubchand, his beloved, blind, bald, incontinent seventeen-year-old mongrel decided to stage a miserable, long- drawn-out death, Estha nursed him through his final ordeal as though his own life somehow depended on it. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cliffs and the base of the hillside were blindingly white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I opened the blinds, exposing the rising sun. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The spray of it half blinded the Company as they crouched against the cliff, and when the air cleared again they saw that the path was blocked behind them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The fact that the meaning of race may evolve over time or lose much of its significance is hardly a reason to be struck blind. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She watched through the darkness as the blind man, the renegade boy, and the bent-tailed dog set off down the path. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Wonka handed each of them a pair of dark glasses and said, “Put these on quick! And don’t take them off in here whatever you do! This light could blind you!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Also, Dante wasn’t blind; if he was really reading off my music stand, he didn’t need to have his face practically in my hair. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Now, beside the house he had recognized as his, he could see the blind man standing. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Yan Chang said that First Wife chose to be blind to the unhappiness of her marriage. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind howled, piling up snow in drifts and blinding the night with ice-white dust. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man smiled in the boy’s direction. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

They waited at the ring steps as Jackson stumbled down, his eyes half-closed, and then they went up, into the pool of hot and blinding light. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She herself shot upwards through the sky, with the stars spinning around her like great golden plates, and presently, in blinding light, she felt the cold rays of the moon upon her. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was just a failure of the traditional grammarians to distinguish categories from functions that blinded them to the realization that a preposition could take a clause, not just a noun phrase, as its object. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

And because they were blind they would destroy themselves and I'd help them. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

These blinded Moors the Europeans taught to sing about the Europeans’ glorious accomplishments. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Several of the Riders cried out, and crouched, holding their arms above their heads, as if to ward off a blow from above: a blind fear and a deadly cold fell on them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Harry yelled, and still shooting Stunning Spells at the advancing goblins, he sprinted toward the blind dragon. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The blind man was excited at the prospect of having caught something, and the young man had to tell him to keep quiet, or he would scare all the animals away. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

On the other hand, his coworkers would have had to be blind and deaf not to have noticed the sudden changes in what was now passing for his personality. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alone with a blind girl and very naked. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It would appear that, a day before the moment of demise, the subject was blind, and sufficiently fevered as to be insensate. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was like a game, like I was trying to hide and a blind woman was trying to find me using sonar. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Smoke was rising in thick, blinding fumes that blended into the star-filled sky. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Even with the blinds blocking every window, the room he entered was airy and bright. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The Next Day After a night of channel surfing and back-to-back reruns of Star Trek, the morning sun rushes in courtesy of the nurse raising the blinds. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

The blind man said that he had first known of it when he was a newcomer to Village, still an invalid with wounds to be tended. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense much in a strange place where they cannot see, but with rabbits it is otherwise. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mark burned on her forehead in blinding blue light. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

I smile and swipe right to accept the call, almost getting blinded when the bright sunshine of whatever pristine beach they’re sitting on bursts through the screen of my iPad. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Dressed immaculately in blinding white jodhpurs, top hat and tails, he radiated both authority and irresistible charisma. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The agony blinded her; the world went in and out of focus. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Returning to the tree he was blinded by the dryad, who was angry at the disregard of her words and the injury to her messenger. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I . . . he . . . Jon, I didn't want to ... he asked ... I mean ... I think he knew, he sees things no one else sees . . ." "He's blind," Jon pointed out forcefully, disgusted. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They say the hydrogen bomb makes no noise: there’s only a blinding white flash that strikes cities dead. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sight, bloody and black, made Bigger flinch involuntarily and lift his hands to his eyes and at the same instant he saw blinding flashes of the silver bulbs flicking through the air. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You could go blind or worse. It happens. People have no idea how dangerous having pets is.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The mind should develop a blind spot whenever a dangerous thought presented itself. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

All you had to do was avoid staring into the gas footlights, since the light might blind you and you could pitch off the stage. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“You’re like the blind man who catches sparrows and calls them phoenixes.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except before I stop to think, I hear myself asking, "How long have you been blind?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Spaniard maneuvered the craft expertly, which was not easy, and the waves were rolling in toward the rocks now and the spray was blinding. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The line was taut as a banjo string, and the merest tug would snap it on and blind the shivering quarry in a blaze of light. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

They seemed to be blinded by the light and kept blinking their eyes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The desert was blindingly white and, though there was a murmur of noises from the city behind him, where he sat everything was perfectly still. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

A sickly yellow vapor rose from his ears, his beard, his blind eyes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But when Miss Bell pulls her blinds closed, the people fill their dinner plates with food, their glasses with sweet tea and gather to talk about marching. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The arrest was a blind to put the killer off guard. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s true, mijo,” Mamá said, “but some people are blinded by the devil. He plants evil seeds in their hearts.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The light came around and blinded Golan again—I tensed, ready to lunge—but the moment sped by too quickly. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

We talked the way she talked, the way blind people talk without moving their head. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

A glare that blinded you and brought visions of sunsets and golden sands. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The efrits shriek and streak after us, surrounding and blinding us, tearing my hands from the ropes once more. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The blind man took the bird, felt over it with his fingers, and smiled. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Plus there was the newest question that he’d just come up with, the one tick-tick-ticking in his brain ready to explode out of his mouth—What’s a blind man doing with a gun? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

The pain speared my heart and the threat of tears blinded me, so I tightened my grip on Juanita’s hand, fighting the urge to scream, to cry, to run away from it all. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

A shard from his sword transfixed the blind white pupil of his left eye. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The ceiling is at least three floors high, and lights of neon blue, green, and gold strobe the room, blinding us with color. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I must admit that your blind raging invigorated me. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then, through the shock and the blare of noise, a bright, blinding white, and Lance Winters sticking his microphone across the table and shouting, “Astelle, Astelle!” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was a long, long time when the blind man walked right away and the camera didn’t follow him, it stayed still, on the empty stretch of pavement, waiting. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In Jane Austens novel Pride and Prejudice, Charlotte Lucas tells her friend Elizabeth Bennet that it is better to go into a marriage blind to the other persons faults. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Millard’s footsteps moved to the window, and the blinds parted an inch. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The light outside the blinds was just gray. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the sound he associated with blind nights at sea—lonely, familiar, hushed, and so melancholy he could never listen without emptiness. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

At the edge of the garden, a dark figure approached - the silhouette of a man whose eyes shone like miniature headlamps, blinding Reyna. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I was once in the body of a blind girl,” I tell her. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father’s behaviour as a husband. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

On the road to the next world, surely, she and Neewo would meet, thought Omakayas, tears blinding her as she tipped water to her father’s lips. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

There was still a weakness on the Under Thirteens, though, in goal: Eldin and Mafoday, the heavyset young man from Gambia with the blinding smile. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were blinded by the strength of their passion, which was like an insatiable thirst. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

My bedroom door ripped open and my mom staggered blind and breathless into the room. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

The BFG, with Sophie sitting on his hand, hurried into the cave and put on those brilliant blinding lights that seemed to come from nowhere. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tried to hold it back, but the wind swept down from the green coastal mountains, whipping the rain into gray waves that blinded him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl went to work in the dark, stripping the dead of boots and clothes and other possessions, emptying their purses and counting out their coins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They rode south with the sun climbing up in the east, making the sky bright, almost blinding. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“She came to all my baseball games. She never missed. She wore this bright pink Windbreaker no matter the weather. I mean, this thing was blinding.” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

Like the dying world the newly blind inhabit, all of it slowly fading from memory. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

The next Sunday, I slept in until the late-morning sunlight slivered through the blinds and found its way to my face. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The blind man stirred restlessly in his chair. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Unsure of what to do but knowing if I stayed there debating my options, the mother cat might well come and blind me, I left the coal shack and lingered about the yard. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

“You know very well I’m blind,” snapped the Earthworm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

And her eyes looked up straight into the blinding sun while she counted something in her mind. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, when he strained his memory during long hours in his cupboard, he came up with a strange vision: a blinding flash of green light and a burning pain on his forehead. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He throws his hands up in vain, but too late—the power-up has blinded him for five solid seconds. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

How could they have all been so blind? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Blinking and bleary-eyed, Ash went to the front door and opened it, and the rising sun flooded into the hall, momentarily blinding her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you think I was blind? Did you think I wouldn’t even notice?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

All around, Matt saw blinding white hills and crusted pools stained with crimson. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Someone’s been lost,” the blind man had said with a worried look, pausing while unbuckling his shoes. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu was not crippled or blinded from an accident, not suddenly suffering amnesia. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

To the brother-in-law, these sounds were meaningless, and he was most impressed at the blind man’s ability to understand the bush although it must have been for him one great darkness. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“Look at him. He’s just a little boy. Wounded and blind. The virgen wouldn’t approve. We have to let him go.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

From the outside you can’t tell that anything’s changed, except that the blinds on most of the windows are drawn down. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

I went back, opened the blinds all the way, and watched openly. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He remembered the old blind king who had chased harpies through Portland with a WeedWacker. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He was stooped and leather-skinned, with one blind eye and hair like coarse white linen thread. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

It took a long time for me to disengage myself from this excitement, and on the blindest, most visceral level, I never really have, and never will. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

There should have been a quarter moon, for what that’s worth, but the sky was overcast, and we were blind until the prison bus turned up with its headlights blazing. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Think of how often he had heard him say, “They can beat me blind, I’ll never tell them anything.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then all four rabbits sat as though transfixed by the sudden, blinding light that poured over them like a cloudburst. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Levi looks through the blinds before opening the door. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Severe cataracts had left Stanton virtually blind, and heart failure made her weak and breathless. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

“How long must I be blind?” she would ask. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A terrible sense of fear filled her, and she heard a noise, a hideous crunching noise, accompanied by blinding pain. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

It was so blinding that even closing his eyes made no difference. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No, I’m not calling you blind—” “You’re calling Theresa a dog?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat with him for a shorter and shorter time each day as my fear took over and the grasping whiteness of the garden blinded me. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He put his hands up and turned in a blind circle. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The liquid within turned, instantly, a blinding white. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

It is easier to imagine a world in which we tolerate racial differences by being blind to them. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Whenever he glanced in the mirror, he was startled by the wild, empty look in his eyes, as if he’d gone blind wandering in the desert. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Kwon said that farm managers pay off soldiers, who then turn a blind eye to large-scale theft of food that is later sold in private markets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

I silently wished for the sun to bounce off the window, blinding Trent and cloaking me from what was sure to be an unpleasant encounter. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were safe and happy and at night their blinds were pulled down against Joe. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She tells me that the week before she went blind, she checked a book out of the library called Welcome to the Monkey House. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He considered telling him it was none of his business, then said, “She was my best buddy’s wife’s best friend. They set us up on a blind date. We hit it off.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And before Genie could even think on whether or not Grandpop being blind was, in fact, a sickness—especially since he said glaucoma was a disease—another question popped out. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

We were all blind with the newness of this experience: a Chinese family trying to act like a typical American family at the beach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were buttons for everything—to lower the blinds, to change the lights from normal to blue, to call for a butler! Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Come and sit. It’s a pretty view through your blinds.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Just the sound of my wife’s voice sent sheer blind misgivings through each and every bit of me. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

“It was just some kind of blind impulse you had in the tree there, you didn’t know what you were doing. Was that it?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does she see the tears that are almost blinding me? A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The earthquakes, the door slam- mings, and Esteban Trueba’s cane had opened cracks in the walls and splintered the doors, and the Venetian blinds had slipped from their hinges. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ralph continued to blow till his ears were singing with the effort, but then the first breeze of dawn took the job off his hands and blinded him with ashes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“I fear it like the proverbial blind man who’s afraid of the dark.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I tried to keep on Ethan’s blind side, but it didn’t help much. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I draw a little mouse so afraid of the world that he hides in the dark until he goes blind. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I sit bolt upright, coughing, my eyes filling with tears as a blinding pain shoots across my chest and all over my body. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

A wounded US paratrooper receives help from two medics in a blinding rainstorm, 1969. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

I don’t know whether I should take her arm or not, and so I don’t; I walk along beside her, watchful at crossings as if she’s blind, slowing my pace to hers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He saw the old gentleman, who thanked him with tears for the return of the blind horse. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty had a few school­ books, and he often borrowed other books from the library so that he could read stories to the blind man in the evenings, a time they both enjoyed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I go to a window that overlooks the street, and when I peek through the blinds, I’m not faced with Peacekeepers but with a bundled crowd of people going about their business. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The sun shone in their eyes, half blinding them and turning their world to liquid gold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight flashed against the window, momentarily blinding her. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He traveled for many hours, blind with rage and without any clear plan in mind. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pregnant girl in love, a kindly shoemaker, an orphan boy, a blind girl, and a giantess who complained that everyone was in her way when she herself took up the most room. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the moment that he forced himself to raise his eyes and look into his father’s face, he felt in himself a stiffening, and a panic, and a blind rebellion, and a hope for peace. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

At seventy-nine, Nels was blind in his left eye and could distinguish only shades of light and darkness through its transient, shadowy pupil. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

True, Edward’s ears barely cleared the tabletop, and true also, he spent the duration of the meal staring straight ahead at nothing but the bright and blinding white of the tablecloth. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

The brass radiator and the Prestolite tank on the running board were blinding with brass polish. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a flash of blinding green light and a rushing sound, as though a vast, invisible something was soaring through the air — instantaneously the spider rolled over onto its back, unmarked, but unmistakably dead. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Rain, driven horizontal by the winds, blinded me, and I was drenched and bruised. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Yes. Yes. You blind or what? Look, look.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

She not only survived that ordeal but she learned how to read in braille, since the acid had left her permanently blind. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

She nodded and said, “I’m old and blind, but I still hear things. A fool never prospers in peace. Do you know what their magic is?” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Penguin Island is the story of an island inhabited by penguins who, in the mistaken belief that they are humans, are blessed by a nearly blind monk. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

A year before he had ridden the blind mule, and Harley rode the burro. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The authorities preferred his kind as policemen because of their ferociousness and blind obedience to white authority. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the two of them walked towards the blind man’s trap. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I would rate the day I went blind as the day my extreme suffering began. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the blind old woman in her rickrack dressing gown and with her thin gray hair plaited into a rat’s tail stepped forward and pushed Vellya Paapen with all her strength. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blinds are half up we forgot to close them last night. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pretending to sleep, he changed his position to make it easier, and then he felt the hand without the black bandage diving like a blind shellfish into the algae of his anxiety. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

“And how could a blind girl know that?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His first bow was a disaster that almost blinded him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was virtually blind with his back to the only exit. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The sun was streaming across the field so one half of her was lost to the low, blinding sunshine, the other half to shade. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Hassan was standing at the blind end of the alley in a defiant stance: fists curled, legs slightly apart. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Self-possessed, the way children of a blind parent tend to be. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The drape covering the blinds also had peacocks on it, only they faced forward, their plumage spread into a thousand blue-green eyes that seemed to watch us. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

“It’s not like going blind, even,” said Lyra, frightened, “because it’s not that we can’t see things, it’s like the things themselves are fading...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The wind sang up in the oak trees on the block and banged the blinds against the side of the house. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Heat and smoke, flames so bright they nearly blinded him, and a lone figure treading into the fire, pulling smoldering books from the shelves. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

They were gone most of the day, and old Grandma was totally blind by then and always there, sitting close to her stove. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

My head throbs with a blinding, stabbing headache. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

But one of the applicants was the son of someone in one of the Munich orchestras, so, for the sake of fairness, the Philharmonic decided to make the first round of auditions blind. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

“Also, moonshine can make you blind, and what I've seen of blindness so far hasn't really impressed me.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

An arrow hit Orellana in the face, blinding him in one eye. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

I notice, with surprise, that the priest’s blind eyes are brimming with tears. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

At this point my eyesight was as good as a blind man’s. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She only needed to break through their blind spots and make her case. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

With a blinding flash of lightning, Zeus was gone. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

My blinding ambition, you see, my dream of dreams, was to become one day the owner of a White Mouse Circus. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Had I known it was Tyler at the time, had I snuck under the blinds and looked up to see his face, I would’ve run outside and embarrassed the hell out of him. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

I scream and feel the blinding shock of a slap across my face. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

And so when the burden of being nothing lifts from one’s thoughts the idea of the immortality of the soul is like a light in a blinding storm. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Soon he was completely blind, his knees and back and head all against the rock, and for a moment he panicked, thinking Lindsey had tricked him, and would leave him, wedged in here. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

I looked up just in time to see the Volkswagen slam on its brakes right in front of us, jolting to a stop and sending another blinding glare of sunlight our way. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I ran and dragged her behind me, still screaming, stumbling and tripping and bumping into things as if she were blind. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

He raised his head, trying to glare at me, but his blind stare was in the wrong direction, following my mother’s pacing. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

She goes to the window and opens the blinds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The operating room is small and crowded, full of blindingly bright lights, which highlight how grubby this place is. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

What else were they going to do, sit there and play blind hopscotch until someone came out to greet them with cookies and milk? The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

"Torches just blind you. On a clear night like this, the moon and the stars are enough. Mychel says I have the eyes of the owl." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When he saw Lucy’s face I could hear the sissing indraw of his breath, and he said to me in a sharp whisper: “Draw up the blind; I want light!” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The leader of the pack, an old male with a grizzled white muzzle and a blind eye, moved out to meet him, snarling, his teeth bared. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Who’d be a kitten again, or even want to see one—blind and deaf and no fur?” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was difficult, blinded like this; her skin was hot inside the mask. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

‘A merry troop of fools we shall look! Will Haldir lead us all on a string, like many blind beggars with one dog? But I will be content, if only Legolas here shares my blindness.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Blond, blue-eyed white dude with a deep side part and comb-over, wearing a blindingly white polo tucked into plaid shorts, and a pair of tasseled loafers. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They zigzagged across the park in blinding flashes, illuminating the terrified faces of poxies and demons alike. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It sprayed a blinding sheet of rainwater that washed over Cade’s windshield and nearly swept us from the road. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

I think about the many ways I ignored what was in front of me—how blind I was, how foolish not to be on my guard. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

He felt in the quiet presence of his mother, brother, and sister a force, inarticulate and unconscious, making for living without thinking, making for peace and habit, making for a hope that blinded. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Cameras flashed at such a blinding rate, the entire scene seemed to be lit by strobes. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Now one nearly blind old warrior gathered the people together and announced that his life was far behind him; for the common good he would determine whether the Raven would turn his children into stone. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When work ended for the day he wandered through the scorching streets, blind and deaf to the spirit of holiday already sweeping the crowds around him. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z

The Po-2s didn’t have to fly in formation and would never be equipped with radios, so the navigators couldn’t use radio signals for blind flying. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

She took one look at the broken mirror, and at me, standing over the blind, white pieces, and hustled the young nurse out of the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Voices shrieked out of the blinding lights: “Move! Move! All you filthy sons of Abraham! All you stinking Zionists! All you dirty Jewish pigs! Line up! Line up!” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Some people get in the cab and like to pretend I’m deaf and blind, but I ain’t. Just so you know.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

All the servants in the Main Branch, including the ones who served the Library, were blind. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

When he blundered again at the door a moment later, again invisible and blind within and beyond his wooden avatar, Dilsey opened the door and guided him across the kitchen with a firm hand. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

What had made her so blind, so obtuse? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

At the suggestion of a blind Christian she was once taken by train to kiss the tombs of saints and martyrs. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I invented personalities for the objects on my dresser and set them up on blind dates. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Its beak stabbed at him fiercely, and Bran felt a sudden blinding pain in the middle of his forehead, be-tween his eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The windshield wipers swiped back and forth, keeping the storm from blinding us. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

During the two months she was gone in the Italian islands I walked the streets of the city with my back blind. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Dawn was slow in coming, and even when it did, the sun shining bright through the blinds, the rickety radiator couldn’t keep us warm, so the Colonel and I sat wordlessly on the couch. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She found the wall again and followed, blind and lost, pretending that Nymeria was padding along beside her in the darkness. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“He’s blind, stupid!” she said, imitating the way I had said it exactly. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

We sat in the stockade, blind to our surroundings. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Farmer was concentrating on negotiating the narrow, winding highway, with its dangerous blind spots. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

Their enemies have blinded them with too much oppression. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hoped the blind man would forget that he had asked what something. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When she smiled, her face looked unnaturally stretched, and the high-voltage light in her eyes made me wonder if she was blind. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ran blind with frustration and anger until he broke through the tree line. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

"Did you think I was as blind as Father?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The icy metal began to melt, the flame so bright it was more blinding than the ice. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

On foot they came, and horsemen, filling the river plain with dazzle of bronze; and Zeus lord of lightning threw my men into blind panic: no one dared stand against that host closing around us. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could have tried to save the blind girl. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“I saw first a yellow glow, which grew almost instantly to an overwhelming white flash, so intense that I was completely blinded.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t just look upset—he looks newly blind. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Someone else says, “They’ll probably take the blind girls before they take the gimps.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It had been her care which provided me a companion in Clerval—and yet a man is blind to a thousand minute circumstances which call forth a woman’s sedulous attention. Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the blinds, the sun filtered through in places and the air was already stifling. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Herds of puffy cumulus raced beneath the sun, imprinting the landscape with a shifting matrix of shadow and blinding light. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

He seemed blind to the bleak desert that surrounded them, now that they had gone outside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s Mother, so meek, and blind in one eye, her hair falling out, and her shift full of holes — making a fool of his lordship. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Manya took care of me during the first nightmarish days of blind panic when my mind collapsed and would not function. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Only one man in the kingdom seemed cast down: the man who’d been Hrothgar’s harper before the blind man came to make his bid. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Brother Quang says, One cannot justify war unless each side flaunts its own blind conviction. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

With all the curtains and blinds drawn, Chess had to navigate by the thin slats of moonlight that trickled in along the edges. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But before anybody could answer, she ran to the window and looked through the blinds. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“It’s a tiger,” Ravi and I answered in unison, obediently pointing out the blindingly obvious. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Max groped for his hat like a blind man; he found it and jammed it on his head. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He could see, but did not tell the blind man, that now Forest was attacking Matty instead. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Their eyes so intent on the wayward stranger who trips into their net, they were blind to the cobalt on their own backs, the moonshine fighting to pierce their comers. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes they are victims of professional narcissism and write as if the reader were interested in every blind alley, fool’s errand, and wild-goose chase they engaged in while exploring the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z

But we have been so consumed with saving Peeta, so tortured by having him in the Capitol’s hands, that the elation at having him back blinded us. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He was just as blind to it all now as he stood alone. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Green light pulsed quicker and quicker until it surged in a hot white flare that blinded everyone in the clearing. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Had he let on that he was blind in one eye, his career would have been over. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The glow grew brighter and brighter, and then a blinding explosion launched the robots in opposite directions. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then she shut the window, adjusted the blind, threw her things and the detached window screen into the bathroom, and closed herself in there as well. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

The window was pushed down as far as it would go and the blind was drawn up. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

A list of things she would scan Izzy for over the next decade: Did Izzy simply not notice things, or was she going blind? Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

When he threw open the back doors, the sunset was blinding. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“But he won’t. That blind rabbit’s been in there for hours.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

With that he summoned all the violent winds and let them loose, blinding sea and land with storm-clouds. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat in the brightness of the afternoon and watched the hem of light under the Venetian blinds. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl had bandages over her eyes. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

What in the world happened to the blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street? Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

I ran through the house, closing curtains and twisting shut every blind I could find. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

And now that I know she's blind, I can see that her eyes look that way, like windows with the shades pulled down. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Twice a month, my uncle gets a rabbit from the pet store. They gave this one to him for free ’cause it’s blind.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Isolated but vivid tragedies involving a few people should not blind us to the fact that myriad prosaic activities may involve a much higher degree of risk. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time Two New Sciences was published, Galileo had gone blind. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

A light on the camera blinks on, blinding me. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then the blind man raised his head, and it seemed to the young man as if the unseeing eyes were staring right into his soul. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“It will do me no good. I might as well be blind, you know.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

The blind girl put her face to the sky and raised her arm in signal. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke and from time to time groaning faintly. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Was it, I asked myself, a ray from the moon penetrating some aperture in the blind? Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Kabuo laid his net out north to south by motoring away from it on a true blind heading as slowly as was possible. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He had fought until he had no ammunition left, and vowing that he’d never be taken alive, detonated a grenade that blinded and crippled him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had cooperated as a young father with the blind selection of names from the Bible for every child other than the first male. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ours are all in good health. When you think of so many people with crippled or blind or not-right children, you just have to thank God.” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

His own blinding arrogance, and now the entire plan could collapse around his ears. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Despite Mrs. Palmer’s blinding social glare, Hayden continued to decline donations. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

A tall whitewashed building, blinding bright against a cold blue sky, appears to be our destination. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

Grandma told us not to listen to her artichoke of a son and to take those grains of salt and throw them right over our left shoulders to blind the devil. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Or to say to someone who is blind, "You should get across this busy interstate highway unaided, or you're just cowardly." Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

When you’re blind it makes no difference whether you open your eyes or not. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

He was the chief gaoler, a cadaverous one-legged knight, with a scarred face and a blind eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The wind whips the snow into blinding swirls but doesn’t block out the sound of another wave of boots headed our way. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It moves and shines about the room, then settles on Mark’s eyes, blinding. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

It was almost blindingly white in the late afternoon sun; it looked as if it had been white st washed several times for the brick to be so completely covered, Polly surmised. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Generally, they’d stumble around with the blind staggers for a while, then gradually get well. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The young man led the blind man off into the bush. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Kaz was at it again, playing with information, keeping one or all of them blind and guessing. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

“Going blind? Nah. It was like every day would get a little darker and a little darker until one day I woke up and everything was just...black.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

It was a barbarous thing, a blind clayey hole with folding chairs for the family teetering on one side and raw dirt heaped on the other. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I could feel that clamping down and see how my mother had pulled the blinds down so low that the bare rollers were showing. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But you will, when the time comes. A new dawn is approaching, but you are very clever, very brave. You will not be blinded by his light.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

He opened the front door of the apartment and was blinded by daylight. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

Then Melina appeared, pigeon on her shoulder, blind brothers at her side. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Only Captain Reed kept them moving forward, seeking out sluggish currents in the still water, maintaining their course despite the blinding light and the blistering heat of the west. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

“But last night, the way you sculpted that piece blind, it was...” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Do not despair, Ophelia. God’s ways are a mystery,” she says, “and our sufferings often blind us to joy.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Even a green boy should be able to see that. Are you blind?” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Questions to remember: What’s a blind man doing with a gun? As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Then he heard the pounding tires and the crying brakes, and when he glanced up he 332 . was blinded by headlights a few feet from his eyes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matty, just a boy when he first came here to live with the blind man, had attended school full-time for a while, and still went for added learning on winter afternoons. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He held it close, as if he were blind. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their foil tops gleamed and twinkled in the early evening light that sifted through the half-closed blinds. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She locked the door behind her and lowered the blinds. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sheets and duvet covers were a bright, blinding white, too, and the only other piece of furniture was an oak cabinet big enough to have lunch in. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

“The thing that got me was not the flash but the blinding heat of a bright day on your face in the cold desert morning,” remembered Philip Morrison. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went ashore and kissed the earth in joy, hot tears blinding his eyes at sight of home. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I heard about the evil thing they did to Ultima, the story of Tenorio’s blinding was throughout the camps.” Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Go upstairs and lie down and rest your two eyes or it’s a blind man you’ll be. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

There were blind corners everywhere, perfect for ambushes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

He kept repeating it I’ll never forget that first hour of knowing I was blind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now the blind man stitched the simple things that he and Matty needed. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The first thing he did was to remove die sagging Venetian blinds from the front windows to let in more light. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s a sin to look at dirty things. The gods have punished you to make you blind.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a second she sees the stone walls around her before his headlamp blinds her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Olly’s window is wide open, the blinds are up, and the lights are off in his room. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nox grabbed the rope, but even that wasn’t enough to lighten the blinding impact on her torso as the rope went taut. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

When I was blind I came here and learned cane-walking in the French Quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

"You were curious about the little blind girl?" Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The horse nearest Jake had a splintery wooden crack in its dingy rump and the eyes walled blind and frantic, shreds of paint peeled from the sockets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The only things he was sure of: it sucked she hadn’t trusted him, it sucked he was blind, it sucked she wasn’t sitting in his lap. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

He plummeted into sleep, the only place he could pretend he wasn’t blind, the only place he could pretend he still had everything he’d lost. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Boethius, the late Roman who had written the Consolatione while unjustly imprisoned by the emperor, had said that a blind goddess spins us on a wheel, that our luck comes in cycles. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Water whips off the lake blinding our view. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Ebola attacks the lining of the eyeball, and the eyeballs may fill up with blood: you may go blind. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked like a blind man and there was sweat on his face. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

All slow like, I pull the cord that lifts up the blinds. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I took a couple of steps toward the barn door and the blind girl sat up, her milky eyes blinking. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The CIA operated covertly in Vietnam, as it did in many countries, and let the Vietnamese generals know the Americans would turn a blind eye to their plans. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The blind man’s daughter would be lost to them forever. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I yawned and folded my legs, Indian style, as we put in the first blinds and Chas shuffled the non-Betch cards. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The sun blinded me at first, and then the treetops of the village began to spin around as they carried me out of the village. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A scar stretches in a thick line from just above her right eyebrow to her lip, rendering her blind in one eye and giving her a lisp when she talks. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Koko, still blind, still stuck in her chair, was dying to know what was happening. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

“You still called me a blind mole and hoped—let me see if I can get this right—you hoped that an unwholesome dew from a wicked fen would drop on me.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Both men were flying blind, neither having had the slightest training in electrical field theory. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

He tossed me a green T-shirt and a pair of shorts so white, they were blinding in the alien glow of the bathroom’s fluorescent lights. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

The caretaker turned the switch and I was blinded by the sudden flash of light. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone else was on the train now—all but Bronwyn and the blind brothers, linked. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The last thing I see is an eruption of blinding light. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

They kept moving and flashing their electric torches into our faces—or where they thought our faces were—occasionally blinding us. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The troll was concussed, blinded by blood, and lame. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Suddenly very aware of how blind she was, Tally felt a drop of cold sweat creep down her spine. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

People who ate their totems lost their teeth or went blind or became sterile or occasionally turned into the forbidden animal. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anthony got up and drew the blinds open. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

“She lives?” the blind man had asked him, unbelieving. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

We had worked through a network of secondary roads and had taken many roads that were blind, but had always, by backing up and finding another road, gotten closer to Udine. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

Matty saw the blind man touch his daughter’s face, to learn her, and he watched in silence as they mourned Kira’s mother together, their hearts connected by the loss. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Matty watched in awe, as he always did, how the blind man felt the coming curve and knew even in his darkness where to turn. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

When I wake, white light slips through the slats on the blind. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a construction she must have once overheard, and she had uttered it in blind faith, like an apprentice mouthing the incantation of a magus. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey wolf. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

After your visits, I twisted my blinds shut every night. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Two pieces actually stuck into his forehead, just above his eyes, and had they been only slightly lower they would have blinded him. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

They carried me down a long hallway and into a room with drawn blinds. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z

“She. . . . Nothing. She didn’t do anything. Her ma came in. She’s blind. ...” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was a moment before his eyes, blinded by the feeble lantern-flame, could make any form of the darkness. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived with the blind man, the one they called Seer, and helped him. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Thin slants of light cut through the blinds, painting yellow stripes against my arms. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

I was despairing over this latest failure, made worse by the fact that Rich seemed blind to it all. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I swear Tam, I’m blind. The kid called down lightning on me.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She checked that the blackout blinds were down and then lit a candle, not wanting to put on the lights and wake her friend. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

There is a blinding flash, a pain that rips through me for one searing instant, a silent scream from my broken body. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Try doing detail work in that blinded condition. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

“But he can’t see now, so why would a blind man, of all people, need a gun?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I shuddered involuntarily, and clung instinctively closer to my blind but beloved master. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The blind man reached out for the bird and took it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

When Dmitri was small his father, the headmaster of a local school, went blind and his mother had to go out to work. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

She takes a hammer and rusty chisel and shatters each coconut, scraping the blinding white, perfumed flesh from the shells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boat ran sharp over choppy seas, fleeing the strong wind that leaned on her sail, running blind through the night. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

I remember well, for instance, the blind animal terror which ensued when some townie set off the civil defense sirens as a joke. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

But they had only launched the ships when the blind giant was seen slowly making his way down to the shore to wash the cavity where his eye had been, which still flowed with blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They fumble and shove, gradually moving the food toward the Hill, but as though by blind chance. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see what was going to happen, and I wanted to reach down and take him out before he ended up in a blind alley. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

His sister was not without a certain low cunning, but her pride blinded her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

We will choose to be blind to injustice and the suffering of others. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

But all of them gushed and fawned over Boobie, and it was impossible not to be blinded by them. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a blind man reading Braille, I traced my fingers over the graffiti scratched into the concrete blocks. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I will tell you since you are too blind to see it. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Twitched her nose, squinted as if the light bouncing off Gregory's shiny forehead was blinding her. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the blind plaster eye in the ceiling. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanted, through his purity and excellence, to be able to perform some ordinary miracle—to heal a blind man or something like that, for instance. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the roof of the cavern collapsed, sunlight blinded her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He went to the window and opened the shutter, but as he looked out his eyes met those of Miss Annie, who was staring back at him from between the blinds of her shutters. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got caught in a blind switch and found myself standing behind Chamberlain. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The blind man chuckled and dropped the beets into the sink. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her Dad still walked up and down the front room like a blind man. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

There was an explosion of white light, blinding in the dark of the alley. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

It did no good to turn a blind eye, turn up a nose, or wish the migrants away. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They become so blinded by adoration they manage to convince themselves their child has qualities of genius. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

She still rode the grey ^garron that Mully had given her the day she left the Wall, a shaggy, stunted thing blind in one eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tears began to blind her, but she kept running, unsure whether she was being pursued. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The windows, blind and black, retained their look of dull emptiness. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Despereaux looked for a long moment into Mig’s small, concerned eyes and then there came a blinding flash and the sound of metal moving through air as Mig brought the kitchen knife down, down, down. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

Behind them lightning stabbed down from the sky, blinding purple bolts that danced across the sea in webs of light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Harry was still half blind, barely able to see anything through his puffed-up eyes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Big business is often blind, except to profit. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

I look around and see the sun screaming through the blinds. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

But Ching’s face, which was pale and yellow every day, was now dark and spotted with his scanty blood, and his half-opened eyes were filmed and blind and his breath came in gusts. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The same blinding greenness throughout, the same ridge, the same incline from ridge to water, the same break in the monotony: a scraggly tree here and there. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The horse was running in a blind terror, streaking down the shed rows. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

“So now she has a Gaming Machine,” the blind man murmured. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Their future rode heavily on their shoulders, and blinded them to the collective joy that had pervaded the lives of the boys and girls in the grammar school graduating class. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He walked out of the tent, which was set up on the curve of a narrow dirt road, and was instantly blinded. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But as sick and blind as she was, I think I could have stood out in the broad open without her ever seeing me. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hated it at the time, and my annoyance had blinded me to just how generous my little brother really was. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a good night for the blind girl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The way I am, it's like being paralyzed or—or blind. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I claimed that I was going blind from the pain, and I then got sent to lie down in the nurse's office. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

That way, blind people could get paid for being led around, and could be contributing members of our society, and we’d all be safer, too. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Thundering toads,” Jennet would say, “I am but a poor woman with this wretched inn and a blind man to care for. I am sure God does not begrudge me my little economies.” The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back in the chair, feeling like I’ve emerged from the darkest cave into bountiful blinding sunlight. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Up ahead, in the mist, A. P Hill probes toward Gettysburg like a blind hand. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half blinded, he rose and stumbled after her. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“I suppose there’s a young man,” the blind man had said to Matty as they traveled back without her. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

No one would ever suspect that he was blind in his left eye. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z

He moves to the window shaded by Venetian blinds, pulls the cord to open the slats. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly the withered wisps grew larger, longer, shimmering and crackling, nearly blinding Taran with streaks of liquid flame. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

“Her guilt makes her blind to your feelings.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

I kept hoping the explanation would turn out to be more complex, that there’d turn out to be more than pure, blind hatred to motivate their actions. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

If hindsight enhances our appreciation for the solidity and stability of the republican legacy, it also blinds us to the truly stunning improbability of the achievement itself. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

Izzy and I had also created a mural on another wall, and had taken great care to paint my blinds with the colors of the rainbow. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Then the dust and the sun blinded him and the one thought in his mind was to get out and find a telephone to call for help. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Like the long finger of blinding power that plays between two terminals, except that this was a thousand miles high and ten thousand miles long: dipping, soaring, undulating, glowing, a cataract of glory. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

“Tell me again the second three-word thing,” the blind man said after he had taken a sip. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A brilliant flash of light accompanied the detonation, momentarily blinding me. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

In a single blinding pulse, a moment of glory much too swift and expansive for any form of words, the singularity assumes heavenly dimensions, space beyond conception. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

Beams of light played across my face, blinding me. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Alex swam forward slowly, completely blind, afraid that at any moment he would crack his head against rock. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The half-broken mini blind that would surely invalidate their deposit if they ever moved out. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

To allow oneself to be carried by the mob, to be swept away by blind fate. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was spotted several times peeking out at the crowd from behind the drawn Venetian blinds on his office windows. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The house is dark, stuffy, the blinds in the living room closed, the curtains drawn across the French doors leading to the garden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You shall have work for your steel soon enough. The enemy is moving, the true enemy. And Lord Snow’s rangers will return before the day is done, with their blind and bloody eyes.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A screen had been set up before the bookcase, and the blinds drawn. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

And so Aru fixed Mini with what she hoped was her friendliest, most blinding smile. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Rising to his feet, he fetched his pouch, took out the brightly colored bird, and gave it back to the blind man. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

And they do not know why; they are powerless pawns in a blind play of social forces. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I know that you are not supposed to judge people by their looks, but a blind man would be able to see that this guy was serious bad news. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

There was a blinding, blooming pain right behind his eyes that was quickly spreading to the outer edges of his skull. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

The shoes seemed blindingly, tragically white, as fresh as wet paint. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yesterday we passed a line of men blinded by mustard gas—they stumbled along like a string of elephants, one man's hand on the next man's shoulder. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

From the outside I must look like a cocoon, a spook, face enshrouded like this, only the outlines visible, of nose, bandaged mouth, blind eyes. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Terrified and remembering all over again that he’s blind. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The blind man was still at the window. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Although I knew he was blind, I felt sure he could see something—at least light and dark. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

The massive wheels tore deep trenches into the hard soil, the engine screamed, and my world contracted to noise and the stark, blinding headlight. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It was a question which had always troubled him and he wondered if the blind man could give him an answer. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The sun suspended above it in the afternoon is a pink, round dot in the distant white haze you may stare at and never go blind. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a blind old man who played the accordion on Main Street, who I used to see every day on my way to school. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z

But the blind man didn’t chuckle in reply. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He took the pickup across the dip slowly, almost tenderly, as if the old truck were the blind white mule, too old to be treated roughly any more. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Jean led him into the small house, and though he was concerned for the dogs, Matty found himself looking around as they walked through, remember­ ing what the blind man had asked. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

He decorated in frontier art, pored over western magazines, listened to Gene Autry on the phonograph, and motored around town in a blindingly ostentatious hot rod Studebaker roadster with a bug boy riding shotgun. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though he was blind and deaf, he never failed to recognize things and his memory of the past and the immediate present was remarkable. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So Ernie helped load all the peas in Grandma’s backseat, the sun blinding him, making him squint. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I search for the exit doorway in the back of the auditorium, but the stage lights blind me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Hazel charged around on Arion, slicing her spatha through one Cyclops after another, while Frank blinded the enemies with his talons. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was too bright for me, a blinding white centre with a pinkish red au­reole. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Something bright reflected from his chest with such intensity that the boy was momentarily blinded. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I can be pretty blind to other people’s feelings.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was a very ugly old woman, Bran thought spite-fully; shrunken and wrinkled, almost blind, too weak to climb stairs, with only a few wisps of white hair left to cover a mottled pink scalp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In another article in Ahmad’s box, a young Mujahid was saying that the Soviets had dropped gas on his village that burned people’s skin and blinded them. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

It slices above my right eyebrow, opening a gash that sends a gush running down my face, blinding my eye, filling my mouth with the sharp, metallic taste of my own blood. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

I open the door; the sun blinds me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The blind man was rubbing the polished wooden side of his instrument with a soft cloth. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

I raced on, nearly blind with panic and fatigue. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

But I was raising my girl modem where she wasn’t kept cooped up, learning blind obedience. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a blind, frustrated rage, maddened by the cries of her cub, the mother turned for something on which to vent her fury, and saw the still figure of the old dog. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He snapped the blind shut and returned to his desk, shouting for Latito in a strong, sure voice, “Get in here, Latito, before I call the rabbi on you.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blind nauseating terror rose in her when she thought of that. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad I’m blind and can’t see them,” the Earthworm said, “or I would probably scream.” James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

To my dismay, this blindingly white arena has not one hidden corner for privacy. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“Then the blind man is deceived, and the woman is an enchantress!” said Hamlet, slapping his thighs for emphasis. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Her husband dying and her mother being blinded were events that would matter in the course of a lifetime. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

He knocked aside Chiron’s blade and yelled, “RACKl” A blinding white light exploded between the Titan and the centaur. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Which is stupid twice—first, because I'm invisible, and second, because even if I wasn't, she's blind. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It grew almost to the ceiling, wrapping itself around the cord to the blinds, all the way up. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

Luckily the blinds are drawn so no one can see in here; if they did they’d probably have me sedated. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Perhaps I was blinded to certain things because of the pain I felt for not being able to fulfill my role as a husband to my wife and a father to my children. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think I nearly went blind then, picturing what was going to happen to Little Arliss. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a blind spot that baffles local and international human rights groups. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

“That was my kid. First over the wall, won the game for his team. Unless you’re blind, that was an MVP play. You’re not blind, are you?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

We tried to persuade New Orleans prosecutors that Mr. Carter, blind and in his sixties, should be released after nearly fifty years in prison. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

“Yes, poor old man. Got blind in both eyes, you know.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Parts of the road have blind curves that scare her. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Grandma answers, sing-songing in my head, “Because love is in the air, my blind little bat. Now get a strand of your hair into his pocket. Immediately.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Most beautiful of all are the emotions: She feels the tides of fear, bloodlust, despair, and blind fury like a swimmer in a stormy sea, overwhelming yet thrilling. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

His sarcasms were as easy as teasing a blind man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt vaguely stunned, as if she had struck me from a blind spot. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

They were all still laughing when the temporarily blind William Spiver stepped on the cord of the little shepherdess and tripped. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

It could truly be said that every plantation thereabout “at its garden gate, has an oyster-bed, a fishing-bar, and a ducking blind.” Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was I so blind, or did I close my eyes willfully, so I would not have to see the price of power? A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The old mass proceeded with sure, blind pomp precisely because Catholics had faith in their public identity as Catholics; the old liturgy was ceremonial because of the Church’s assumption that worship is a public event. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wall beside me was covered in long vertical blinds; over my head, the glaring lights blinded me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

But as I went around a blind comer I drove straight into what I had been trying to avoid: a roadblock. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the light winked out below the haze again and all three pilots were left blinded in the dull gloom of a showery autumn afternoon. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

“If we are blind to the educational disadvantages associated with need, we will simply replicate these disadvantages while appearing to make decisions based on merit.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

The shop was dark with the blinds down, but I could see framed portraits, film canisters, and camera parts on the shelves. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Yellow spiders ran when we turned rocks over and pale worms blind and afraid of light rolled over in their sleep. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can tell this guy is worried that he's going to hurt this blind girl's feelings. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could hawk with a merlin, or play blind man’s buff, or pince-merille. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could continue to sail, but to move blind in the dark this close to an unknown shore would be madness. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now blood ran from the dwarf’s eyelids, into his eyes and down his face, blinding him. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Watching him makes the hurt from Poe less blinding, filling my heart up to the brim, even though it’s still in pieces. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The room was dark, but strands of light streamed in through the blinds—cracks of brightness and swirling dust in the midst of all this empty—and I could read the titles on the bookshelf. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But first he had the other thing to worry about, and the troubling awareness that he had not dared to tell the blind man of it. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

“You blinded our guys right along with the Black Tips.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Closing the slat, she stepped away from the blinds. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

They looked as naked as blind salamanders for the few days it took to get over the shock of their pale, weak chins. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

At such moments my flesh is thin and tight, and the unbearable hunger to be part of it drives me out to search in the dark corners and blind alleys of the night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She flashed a blindingly white smile, as her manicured nails brushed a lock of relaxed hair behind her ear. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

For all I saw, I might have been blind. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

My mother says anyone that writes such letters should be boiled in oil and have his fingernails pulled out by blind people. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

It was almost like I was piloting a ship through a blinding fog, and Rain was an experienced captain. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

That thing was bodiless, blind to sunlight, a creature of a lightless, placeless, timeless realm. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The blinds were closed and in the darkened rooms there was the smell of dust. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had turned my back on him and the sledge and the plastering, blinding, suffocating snow in order to get my breath, and when a minute later I turned around he was gone. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at the tin of dominoes, blind anger rising suddenly from my toes. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

After ten minutes or so, he pulls the blinds, turns out the lights, and sits next to me. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the time, a black woman learning how to type was like a blind person learning how to drive. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He comes at Hideo, swinging the stick at him with blinding speed. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Mom’s face disappeared from the giant screen, replaced by the blank, blinding light again. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

For the first time I truly appreciate the expression, because the salt in the water makes the pain of my wounds so blinding I nearly black out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The old man turns his blind head, rising from confusion to listen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘I was without my weapons at the time. You don’t bring your bow and knives when you’re courting a princess. The guards took me easily. Her father the king had me blinded and exiled.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

What did blind people see in their dreams? Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

From halfway up the street I can see the blinds are drawn. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“When I first went blind, I used to walk around out here all the time. I just didn’t want my life to change—I didn’t want things to be different.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

She talks as she lowers the blinds and turns off the lights. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I think I was blind trying to do things my way, planting books in firemen's houses and sending in alarms.” Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was hot on my skin, too bright as it bounced off the white concrete and blinded me. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When they turn to white they are blinding, and the shower of sparks falls like stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Broadfoot the bull moose emerged from the trees and stood directly in the path of the blinded robot. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

And this is because when your eye flicks from one point to another you don’t see anything at all and you’re blind. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“But, what is this? Oh, no! MaWee has used some of his conjuring powers on Madame Sabbar and has rendered her blind!” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I hug her one last time at the door, then watch her walk away into the blinding afternoon sun. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Ma’am,” Augustus said, nodding toward her, “your daughter’s car has just been deservedly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we’ll be forced to call the police.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know now what she was to me—the first glimpse of a space-bridge, a wormhole, a galactic portal off this bound and blind planet. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The dove tested its wings with a couple of flaps, then soared away in a blinding flurry of white. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’d look in and stagger back, blinded, as the facts of her own history poured over her like lava. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blinds were down so it felt like evening, not ten in the morning. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Stephen Hobert says the one word that sends me into a blind rage. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Standing on the porch was a young man who looked about seventeen or eighteen, although I am not as good at guessing people’s ages as blind Mrs. Partridge is. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

You this nosy with everybody, or just old blind men?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A young man married a woman whose brother was blind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

I was blinded from the constant looking back: Lot’s wife. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the back of my mind lingered an awareness of the hideous irrationality of this situation, but at the forefront, there was only blind terror. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

At first, I think the breeze is making the crisp, yellowed paper blind scrape against the window frame. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The pendant had flashed, blinding her for a moment. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

He thought he could almost make out the house he shared with the blind man, though it was infinitely small on the fabric. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

Hoder, Balder’s brother, who was blind, sat apart. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Loki sounds like a weeping baby!” giggled Balder’s brother Hod, who was blind but still laughed every time Loki screeched. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The Navy had notified them that I was blind, so that it would not be a shock. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Mwila told Anthony to close the blinds while he flipped the light switch to make the room dark. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I was glad that I had seen him and had seen Timothy before going blind. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

If your philosopher has truly left Plato’s cave, if he has stared into that sun of the blind...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The saddest moment, I think, is that when his brothers grabbed the king in his palace, they blinded him first. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I’m only blind, son. My junk still works.” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“You could ask Leader,” the blind man suggested. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The light from the hallway blinded me for a second. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

A white light, like a shooting star, blinding pain. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And, reader, do you think I feared him in his blind ferocity?—if you do, you little know me. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“They had a blinding advantage. The kajillion-dollar super bats didn’t hurt, either.” Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He did succumb to rages, moments of blind anger when all he wanted was to hurt someone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I’m not blind, but I do have my own issues. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His blind left pupil seemed especially transient and beyond his control this morning. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Then, as if it was being told what to do, the creature stopped moving, and its blind head tipped to one side. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Only the Sports Family had all their windows totally blocked, covered by heavy blinds. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z

The blind man could hear him moving about the room, gathering things. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

She used it to tap the ground like the blind lady in town, the way Caesar had probed the black water during their flight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Even before they reached the traps, the blind man was able to tell that they had caught something. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

“His arguments blind the eyes of good Christians with tricks of the Devil.” The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

I was like a blind person walking to my fate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The swines,” my mother said when I told her I feared going blind; I had even stopped going to school. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It can be sort of blinding,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I give chase, the battle rage rising, blinding me to anything else. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

The blind man could never enter Forest again. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z