They were two powerful black horses, and as they had no blinders on, they could see us coming.

The young master very obviously did not wish to be observed, and in such times Peters at could be blinder than the bat noon-day and more secret than the River Styx.

It would seem as though a man must have blinders before his own eyes, to render him incapable of perceiving the difference between concealing a possible cause of fright from an animal, and intentionally deceiving that animal.]

And it may be remarked, that those persons who have busied themselves most with inquiries into the causes, and motives, and impulses of their actions, have exhibited, in their conduct, the most lamentable contrast to their theory, and have seemed blinder in their knowledge than others in their ignorance.

"I had a picnic last Monday," he said; "father let me cut all the blinders off our head-stalls with my penknife.

Never was a government blinder to the significant facts of a critical situation.