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Definition of Blindsides
1. blindside [v] - See also: blindside
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blindsides
Literary usage of Blindsides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Literary Reader: Prose Authors: With Biographical Notices, Critical and edited by Hugh George Robinson (1867)
"blindsides,—weaknesses: " He is too great a lover of himself; this is one of his
blind- tides: the heat of men, I fear, are not without them."— Swift. ..."
2. The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden: Now First by John Dryden, Edmond Malone (1800)
"... to the representing of blindsides and little extravagancies ; to which, the
wittier a man is, he is generally the more obnoxious. ..."
3. Essays of John Dryden by John Dryden (1900)
"I avoided the mention of great crimes, and applied myself to the representing of
blindsides, and little extravagancies; to which, the wittier a man is, ..."
4. The Poetry of John Dryden by Mark Van Doren (1920)
"... the blindsides and extravagancies of his people not so much through action,
though he does that brilliantly in Marriage a la Mode, as through elaborate ..."
5. Lexicon Frisicum: A-Feer by Justus Hiddes Halbertsma, Tjalling Halbertsma (1874)
"Ang. blind-side, weak part; indolis qua-darn infirmitas. lie is to great a lover
of himself; this is one of his blindsides: the best of men, 1 fear, ..."
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