He waited at the station until an underground train snaked its way in like a giant blindworm, and went with it to the Temple and so to the quiet hotel he had chosen in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
"Swirling Waters"
Max Rittenberg
The greater slow worm, called also the blindworm, is commonly thought to be blind, because of the littleness of his eyes.
"The Grammar of English Grammars"
Goold Brown
It is because she dares not go to sleep on account of the blindworm, who is waiting to catch her with her eyes closed.
"The Curious Book of Birds"
Abbie Farwell Brown