Rachel, the youngest, was “beautiful and well-favored;” Leah, the elder, was “blear-eyed.”

That woman Pele was very old and blear-eyed, so that she could not see you well, and you returned to Haumea.

When Cunégonde is at last found, she is no longer beautiful—but sunburnt, blear-eyed, haggard, withered, and scrofulous.