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  • I believe Mr.. Purblind must have been deaf as well as blind, otherwise the neighborhood gossip regarding Mr. Chance and myself, which was rife

    How to Cook Husbands Elizabeth Strong Worthington

  • Purblind household, and the renewal of his attentions to her.

    How to Cook Husbands Elizabeth Strong Worthington

  • As SvtElMcUs and other Glafjes arc razdt to help the Purblind and weak Eyts, to fee at any competent diftance: So there are Otacoufiicks

    Miscellanea Curiosa: Being a Collection of Some of the Principal Phaenomena ... 1705

  • I had also noticed that Mr. Purblind’s conduct did not keep pace with these improvements, but I fancied Mr.. Purblind was not sharp enough to see or sensitive enough to care.

    How to Cook Husbands Elizabeth Strong Worthington

  • The day after this of which I have been telling, I went to a picnic gotten up by Mr.. Purblind, for the entertainment and delectation of Mr. Purblind’s cousin, now visiting her, a frivolous young thing, between whom and myself there was not even the weather in common, for she would label “simply horrid” a lovely gray day, containing all sorts of possibilities for the imagination behind its mists and clouds.

    How to Cook Husbands Elizabeth Strong Worthington

  • "I cannot carp at you," wrote Jerome Otway in reply, "but tighten the purse-strings after this, and be not overmuch familiar with Alexander the Little or Daniel the Purblind.

    The Crown of Life George Gissing 1880

  • Purblind reafon, here, will (ay, even the goodnefs of God himfelf, in the hu - man heart, will fay.

    The Fool of Quality; Or, the History of Henry Earl of Moreland. 1770

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