While standing at the counter, he took the cover from a red-pepper box and furtively watching his chance, threw the contents into the sergeant's eyes, completely blinding him.
To be sure, there is not the smallest flash that does not illumine the tent, and there is no way of hiding from the blinding light.
He was hers, her mate out of the whole world, and in a sudden blinding flash of self-revelation, she recognised in her refusal to return to him a sheer denial of the divine altruism of love.
The rain poured down in streams, and there was alternate darkness and blinding light; alternate silence and deafening clamour.
The moon had risen, it was light enough to make the surrounding objects visible, to those who could open their eyes for the blindingclouds of sand.
Day after day so, and then ten miles of storm such as come only to the vast barrens of the northlands; and woe to the traveller upon whom the icy wind and the blinding snow descended!
For an instant he stood motionless, blinking in the blinding sunlight.
I was off in the morning at the first opportunity, again by train, which, passing in the early afternoon through a blinding sand-storm near the village of Cisneros, landed me soon after at Palencia.
Let the man turn and look upon Issus, knowing that those of the lower orders who gaze upon the holy vision of her radiant face survive the blinding glory but a single year.
A blinding gust of smoke blotted out the tragedy within that fearsome cell--a shriek rang out, a single shriek, as the dagger fell.
In a moment a dozen men broke through the now blinding smoke to my side.
Let the woman turn and look upon Issus, knowing that those of the lower orders who gaze upon the holy vision of her radiant face survive the blinding glory but a single year.
All at once, with a light that wasblinding in its intensity, and with a terrible clap of thunder, the storm burst upon us.
From the soft tint of rose-ashes to the fiery red of a blinding sun, the whole gamut of colors and effects is used.
But this blinding electricity strikes a false note.
They keep us now in blinding whirlwinds, which swarm with flies.
She pulled him to her and held him tightly against her breast while she once more read the note through blinding tears.
There were tears in her eyes, hot blinding ones that wouldn't drop for pride, but stayed and scalded.
The glare of the headlight was upon us for an instant and then, passing, left us in blinding darkness.
It trembled at the warm and light breath of the wind and became covered with tiny wrinkles that reflected the sun in blinding fashion and laughed at the sky with its thousands of silvery lips.
He made the sign of the cross and remained seated, blinking his eyes to free them from the tears that were blinding them.
The roar of the guns was unceasing, drowning the rattle of musketry and the shrieks of the wounded; the blinding flashes played perpetually round their muzzles; our advanced guard was nearly annihilated, though that we only guessed.
Then came a blinding flash, a loud report, a greyish cloud of smoke, and, from behind me, fierce shouts and cries of pain.
Avanti along the blindingwhite road by the sea, to the village on which great Etna looked down, not harshly for all its majesty.
At that stage every living thing seeks shelter, and those who are afield are lucky if they are not caught in theblinding storm before they reach their houses.
