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Definition of Blinkards
1. blinkard [n] - See also: blinkard
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blinkards
Literary usage of Blinkards
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Poems by Charles Kingsley (1856)
"Oh ! what blinkards are we gentlemen, to train any dumb beasts more carefully
than we do Christians ;—that a man shall keep his dog-breakers, ..."
2. Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy: Or, The Age of Might and the Age of Right by John Francis Bray (1839)
"There are many of these mental blinkards at the present day; and any man who
dares but to hope that the sons of labour shall not always be oppressed and ..."
3. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"Item, Because at that time they put no women into nunneries, but such as were
either purblind, blinkards, lame, crooked, ill- favored, misshapen, fools, ..."
4. Poems by Charles Kingsley (1856)
"Oh ! what blinkards are we gentlemen, to train any dumb beasts more carefully
than we do Christians ;—that a man shall keep his dog-breakers, ..."
5. Labour's Wrongs and Labour's Remedy: Or, The Age of Might and the Age of Right by John Francis Bray (1839)
"There are many of these mental blinkards at the present day; and any man who
dares but to hope that the sons of labour shall not always be oppressed and ..."
6. The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism by Julian Hawthorne, John Russell Young, Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh, John Porter Lamberton (1906)
"Item, Because at that time they put no women into nunneries, but such as were
either purblind, blinkards, lame, crooked, ill- favored, misshapen, fools, ..."
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