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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Blind
 
  Blind as a bank director.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Blind as a bat.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Blind as a white cat with a blue eye.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Blind as Cupid.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Blind as the blue skies after sunset.
            —Philip James Bailey		  5
  Blind as ignorance.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  6
  Blind as moles.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  7
  Blind as the fool’s heart.
            —Robert Browning		  8
                Blind
Ay, as a man would be inside the sun,
Delirious with the plentitude of life.
            —Robert Browning		  9
  Blind as fortune.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  10
  Blind as the blindworm.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  11
  Blind as a brickbat.
            —Charles Dickens		  12
  Blind as the Cyclop.
            —John Dryden		  13
  Blindness acts like a dam, sending the streams of thought backward along the already-traveled channels, and hindering the course onward.
            —George Eliot		  14
  Blind as death itself.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  15
  His eye is blind as that of a potato.
            —Thomas Hood		  16
  Blind as inexperience.
            —Victor Hugo		  17
  Blind as a beetle.
            —Ben Jonson		  18
  Blind as a woman in love.
            —Ninon de L’Enclos		  19
  Blind as one that hath been found drunk a seven-night.
            —Thomas Middleton		  20
  Blind as justice.
            —Mary Russell Mitford		  21
  Blind as hooded falcons.
            —Thomas Moore		  22
            Blind as he who closes
His eyes to the light and will not have it shine.
            —Lewis Morris		  23
  Like fortune in her frenzy, blind.
            —Sarah W. Morton		  24
  Blind as the song of birds.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  25
  Blind as love.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  26
  Blind as moonless night.
            —Robert Louis Stevenson		  27
  Blind and stark as though the snows made numb all sense within it.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  28
  Blind as a pilot beaten blind with foam.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  29
  Blind as glass.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  30
  Blind as grief.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  31
  Blind as the night.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  32
                Blind and vain
As rain-stars blurred and marred by rain
To wanderers on a moonless main
Where night and day seem dead.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  33
  Blind as any noonday owl.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  34
  Blind like tragic masks of stone.
            —James Thomson		  35
 
 
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