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Updated: May 6, 2025
"All the books are ranged in their proper places," went on the other. "I could put my finger on any of them blind-fold. But this is the shelf I wished you to see." He took him to one that was behind the door, holding up the candle that he might see. The shelf had a box or two on it, besides books, and these he opened and set on the table.
It was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber, who, attired in a white coat and smoking a cigarette, leaned non-chalantly against the first chair. He must have heard of her; he must have been waiting all week, smoking eternal cigarettes beside that portentous, too-often-mentioned first chair. Would they blind-fold her?
"Then," said Clarence Hervey, "would you engage to tell the differences between these two wines ten times running, blind-fold?" "Ten times! that's nothing," replied Sir Philip: "yes, fifty times, I would, by Jove!" But when it came to the trial, Sir Philip had nothing left but oaths in his own favour.
Thereupon he cried with a great cry, whereat our hearts trembled, and springing up from the bench, he fell a- groping after us, blind-fold. We fled from him right and left and he saw us not, for his sight was altogether blent; but we were in terrible fear of him and made sure we were dead men despairing of escape.
Some folks, now, might take a header into one o' them old lead-mines. He wouldn't. He could ha' gone blind-fold over this spot." "Well he's disappeared," observed the policeman. "There's a search being made, all round. You heard naught last night, I suppose?" Creasy gave Neale and Betty a look.
I daresay the other soldier was tired, lazy fellow! and got into the omnibus with the others they'll all get out at the same big hole." "Head foremost, you know." "Yes, they pitch them head first into a bed of lime." "Why, one might follow the dead-cart blind-fold, and no mistake. It's worse than Montfaucon knacker-yards!"
Georgie was the last to leave and did not notice till he was half-way home that he had a ham-frill adorning his shirt front. He hoped that it had been Olga who put it there, when he had to walk blind-fold across the floor and try to keep in a straight line. Riseholme got up rather late next morning, and had to hurry over its breakfast in order to be in time for church.
Tarts are made, according to the recipe of the Vizier's son of Bussorah, who turned pastrycook after he was set down in his drawers at the gate of Damascus; cobblers are all Mustaphas, and in the habit of sewing up people cut into four pieces, to whom they are taken blind-fold.
I daresay the other soldier was tired, lazy fellow! and got into the omnibus with the others they'll all get out at the same big hole." "Head foremost, you know." "Yes, they pitch them head first into a bed of lime." "Why, one might follow the dead-cart blind-fold, and no mistake. It's worse than Montfaucon knacker-yards!"
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