Our neighbors in rooms and commensaux at meals are the J. G. Frazers-he of the "Golden Bough," "Pausanias," and other three-and six-volume works of anthropological erudition, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a sucking babe of humility, unworldliness and molelike sightlessness to everything except print....
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
It was a fantastic caprice of the man to mock his sightlessness by a parade of light, and under the soft brilliance of a dozen electric brackets the room was as bright as day.
"Max Carrados"
Ernest Bramah
In the fury of the blizzard the Arctic night was reduced to a pitchy blackness worse than the sightlessness of the blind.
"The Heart of Unaga"
Ridgwell Cullum