Hard it is to look at a Gothic building without a romanticizing ophthalmia, harder still to consider a Gothic personage.
Guided by a rast, somewhat unaccountable irascibility, implicated by attacks of boils, carbuncles, rheumatism, influenza, ophthalmia, toothache, enlarged liver and creditors .
When he was eleven, Elmer Gantry had his first attack of periodic ophthalmia (blindness).