blind-alley

On the other hand, political action was a blind-alley leading to reformism and quietism.

CHAPTER XIV 2010

It was quite natural, that those who had the blind-alley Vide – Gousset,

Les Miserables 2008

Once only, on the occasion of one of these departures, she had accompanied him in a hackney-coach as far as a little blind-alley at the corner of which she read: Impasse de la Planchette.

Les Miserables 2008

Moreover, because he believed he knew how the police would proceed in their investigation of the victim remains that were turning up all over King County, he actually placed parts of his victims in specific places, knowing that would create a false lead and trigger a blind-alley investigaton.

The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

Moreover, because he believed he knew how the police would proceed in their investigation of the victim remains that were turning up all over King County, he actually placed parts of his victims in specific places, knowing that would create a false lead and trigger a blind-alley investigaton.

The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

Moreover, because he believed he knew how the police would proceed in their investigation of the victim remains that were turning up all over King County, he actually placed parts of his victims in specific places, knowing that would create a false lead and trigger a blind-alley investigaton.

The Riverman Robert D. Keppel 2005

The youth who leaves school at fourteen and gets a blind-alley job is out of work at twenty, probably for life; but for two pounds ten on the hire-purchase he can buy himself a suit which, for a little while and at a little distance, looks as though it had been tailored in Savile Row.

The Road to Wigan Pier 2004

It was the Avenger; the murderer or would-be murderer, who had trailed the old millionaire for so long across land and sea, and had now tracked him to this blind-alley of an iron pier that hung between sea and land.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

It was the Avenger; the murderer or would-be murderer, who had trailed the old millionaire for so long across land and sea, and had now tracked him to this blind-alley of an iron pier that hung between sea and land.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

He loped into her tiny blind-alley kitchen, through the living room, into the bedroom.

War for the Oaks Bull, Emma, 1954- 1987