hoodman

What devil was\'t that thus hath cozen\'d you at hoodman-blind?

GEORGE WASHINGTON v. george bush. . . Hamlet: See what a grace was seated on this brow, . . .Look you now what follows 2006

Here were kept up the old games of hoodman blind, shoe the wild mare, hot cockles, steal the white loaf, bob apple, and snap dragon: the Yule clog and

The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon 2002

Playing hoodman blind in and out of a hundred stalls, and all crowded with folk buying and selling, that's not for me.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

But now the mirth and glee grow 'fast and furious,' for hoodman blind has imprisoned three or four of the youngest boys in

Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries William Francis Dawson

I can here hardly do more than allude to the many games {51} that were traditional in England at Christmas -- hoodman-blind, shoe the wild mare, hot cockles, steal the white loaf, snap-dragon, and the rest.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

A new intercalation is (in the first quarto there is no vestige of it), that Hamlet reproaches his mother with having degraded 'sweet religion' to 'a rhapsody of words; 'that he says' the Devil hath conquered her at hoodman blind; 'that she should confess herself to Heaven, and' assume

Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

Humming a gay measure, jubilant at the prospect of seeing himself so amply avenged, Gonzaga passed down and out into the castle gardens to join the ladies in their merry-making over a game of hoodman blind.

Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912

I launched myself suddenly into the vacancy before me, and went like hoodman blind with arms outstretched towards the railing.

Hurricane Island 1892

If the tale were to be published, the fun would lie, not in attempting to mystify the reader, but in watching with him the mystification of the hero, -- in showing how he played at hoodman-blind with his destiny, and how surprised he was, when, the bandage stripped from his eyes, he saw whom he had caught.

Grey Roses Henry Harland 1883

Then came supper, and the evening closed with hot cockles and blind-hoodman -- the latter being blindman's buff.

Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution Emily Sarah Holt 1864