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blindman's-buff

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  • Christmas-tree from the blacksmith-shop; they urged Miss Doc to start a candy-pull, a night-school, a dancing-class, and a game of blindman's-buff forthwith.

    Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

  • The office was closed in a twinkling, and the clerk, with the long ends of his white comforter dangling below his waist (for he boasted no great-coat), went down a slide on Cornhill, at the end of a lane of boys, twenty times, in honour of its being Christmas Eve, and then ran home to Camden Town as hard as he could pelt, to play at blindman's-buff.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • We had changed our course so often that I was beginning to believe that nobody aboard could make a nearer guess at our position than the giddy victim in blindman's-buff.

    London River 1915

  • "He will be rested before he picks it up again," said Bagheera coolly, as he slipped round a tree-trunk, in the game of blindman's-buff that they were playing.

    The Second Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • In the darkness it seemed to him to be more happily adapted for a game of blindman's-buff.

    The Duke's Motto A Melodrama 1898

  • Besides, cuckoo, you and I alone couldn't have much fun at blindman's-buff; there'd be only me to catch you or you to catch me.

    The Cuckoo Clock 1893

  • Yet anything short of that is a mere game of blindman's-buff; whatever we knock against and get hold of we shall be taking for the thing we want, because the truth is hidden from us.

    Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894

  • Yes, yes, laugh as you will, he is playing blindman's-buff; perhaps he gets hold of something, but the question is what he has got hold of.

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 02 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Kuno Francke 1892

  • After tea Mother played games with them -- any game they liked -- and of course their first choice was blindman's-buff, in the course of which Bobbie's forget-me-not wreath twisted itself crookedly over one of her ears and stayed there.

    The Railway Children 1891

  • Then the boys played blindman's-buff in the house, or hide-and-seek about the yard or garden, or upstairs in their den, a narrow alcove at the top of the house.

    Two Little Confederates Thomas Nelson Page 1887

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