blind-man's-buff

I'd taken a loving fumble at her myself, during blind-man's-buff at a party in Stratton Street, but she'd simply stared straight ahead of her and dislocated my thumb.

Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977

Hope may be blind-man's-buff but life is seasonal.

HOMAGE TO PIETER BRUEGHEL 1966

Hope may be blind-man's-buff but life is seasonal.

POEMS BY SEAMUS HEANEY, 1963-1966 1966

There was more real justice, friend Will, in the little finger of the Law of Moses, than in the whole right arm and sword of our boasted English trull, and you may throw her scales and blind-man's-buff frippery into the bargain.

Cromwell Alfred B. Richards

And when in the evenings the room was cleared, and the merry games of blind-man's-buff and forfeits were engaged in, it may be questioned if any British household had lighter hearts and greater freedom from care than that of the dwellers in Longstone beacon.

Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands Eva Hope

There were games of hide-and-seek, in which the four happy children and the men all joined with equal irresponsibility, and games of blind-man's-buff, that threatened the breaking to pieces of the house.

Bruvver Jim's Baby Philip Verrill Mighels

He stood for a time and watched with much amusement a game of blind-man's-buff -- _colin-maillard_ the little beggars called it, but if the name was different, the play was the same that Paul had known in his own boyhood at Verdayne Place.

High Noon A New Sequel to 'Three Weeks' by Elinor Glyn Anonymous

Oppressed with a feeling of need and seeking something not clearly defined, the people grope in darkness and stumble on events, as if playing blind-man's-buff.

The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy Robert Elliott Flickinger

In one of them he lived and died, just above the rooms tenanted by the learned Blackstone, who, at that time engaged in penning the fourth volume of his "Commentaries," was often grievously annoyed by the dancing - and drinking-parties, the games of blind-man's-buff, and the noisy singing of "poor Noll" and his boon companions.

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various

Supper-parties were frequent, "preceded by blind-man's-buff, forfeits, or games of cards, when Goldsmith, festively entertaining them all, would make frugal supper for himself off boiled milk."

Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885 Various