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  • Shyer at some moments than at others, she felt just now no courage at all to join this company: she could not, however, stand alone where all others went in pairs or parties, so she approached a group of her own scholars, great girls, or rather young women, who were standing watching some hundreds of the younger children playing at blind-man's buff.

    Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

  • And it will be all the harder because you will be dealing with something you yourself can only sense dimly, like Playing blind-man's bluff with an unruly stallion.

    Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • And it will be all the harder because you will be dealing with something you yourself can only sense dimly, like Playing blind-man's bluff with an unruly stallion.

    Storm Breaking Lackey, Mercedes 1996

  • It was like playing blind-man's bluff, only in this game the blindfold was made of words.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

  • No guard mounted, but you've got time to play blind-man's buff and have a little tea-party.

    Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

  • They could not be forever playing at hide-and-seek among the flower-shrubs, or at blind-man's buff with garlands over their eyes, or at whatever other games has been found out while Mother

    The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck

  • They could not be forever playing at hide-and-seek among the flower-shrubs, or at blind-man's buff with garlands over their eyes, or at whatever other games has been found out while Mother

    The Elson Readers, Book 5 Christine M. Keck

  • Scrooge's niece was not one of the blind-man's buff party, but was made comfortable with a large chair and a footstool, in a snug corner, where the Ghost and Scrooge were close behind her.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • They raced around the pen, playing a game much like our game of tag, and if they could have had someone to tie a hand-kerchief over their eyes, they might have played blind-man's buff.

    Squinty the Comical Pig His Many Adventures Richard Barnum

  • Then came all sorts of games, from tag and jumping rope, to blind-man's bluff and hide-and-seek.

    The Bobbsey Twins at School Laura Lee Hope

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