| 单词 | blind alley |
| 例句 | A strong counter-emotion waxed in him, urging him, warning him to leave this newly-seen and newly-felt thing alone, that it would lead him to but another blind alley, to deeper hate and shame. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes they are victims of professional narcissism and write as if the reader were interested in every blind alley, fool’s errand, and wild-goose chase they engaged in while exploring the topic. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z None of his “leads” had led anywhere, except, perhaps, down a blind alley toward the blankest of walls. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z In the sealed-off passageways, beyond blind alleys, that I would never see. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I’m in a blind alley now, and that’s all there is to it.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The new mass of knowledge is still formless, incomplete, lacking the essential threads of connection, displaying misleading signals at every turn, riddled with blind alleys. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I could see what was going to happen, and I wanted to reach down and take him out before he ended up in a blind alley. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Death is not a blind alley that leads the human race into a state of nothingness, but an open door which leads man into life eternal. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z At such moments my flesh is thin and tight, and the unbearable hunger to be part of it drives me out to search in the dark corners and blind alleys of the night. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z But then marriage must be the willingness to walk the blind alleys. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z That conjurer’s panache of a reveal is achieved through cleverly withheld information, alluring blind alleys and pungent red herrings. A Rich, Old-Fashioned Spy Thriller Set in Elizabethan England 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Much is made of the policeman's philosophy that "everything is connected", which leads us down several blind alleys. Crime fiction roundup – reviews 2012-07-13T21:43:00Z Prefabs were a blind alley of postwar rehousing. Excalibur's castles built from postwar dreams must not be demolished 2011-01-06T21:00:04Z It's a confident, well-made film that ends up in a blind alley of cynicism. Days of Grace – review 2013-07-25T21:30:00Z I loved the finale, though I thought most of season 6 went, well, sideways with digressions and blind alleys. We Have to Go Back: Hope, Disappointment and Re-Watching Lost With My Kids 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z I didn't mind that the show sometimes felt slow; police investigations are methodical affairs, filled with blind alleys. A former fan cools on 'The Killing' 2011-06-18T09:31:05Z No one doubts his linguistic gifts, but they have often led up him up blind alleys: the heavily brilliant narrating voice can stifle everything else in the novels. Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis – review 2012-06-08T21:55:05Z Season 4 is unabashedly weird—going down blind alleys, dipping deep into uncomfortable ambiguity, and forcing us to endure long scenes that don’t seem as though they’re going to work. Review: 'Orange is the New Black' Rebounds With a Majestic Fourth Season 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z By the time 22 Jump Street is spitballing its own sequels over the end credits, it’s clear any radicalism is running down a blind alley. From 21 Jump Street to Baywatch and CHiPs: how Hollywood remade the remake 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z “It’s like wandering down a few blind alleys in Douglas Adams’s brain and wondering, ‘What was that about?’ and ‘What was he working toward?’ Douglas Adams Biography to Include Unseen 'Hitchhiker's Guide' Material 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z His con man brother Wilson prophetically said, “Easy street is a blind alley,” and not much later the two of them found themselves stumbling along its darkened length. Built on Sand: The Get-Rich-Quick Scams of 1920s Florida 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The problem for me is not that anything sounds particularly unlike Mahler but that much sounds too specifically Mahlerian, leading you into another symphony and down a blind alley. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Rachmaninoff and Work by a Mahler Proxy 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They lived in a small house down a blind alley in the Mahavir Enclave II area in the south-west of the city, a poor area of slum dwellings. Five years after the gang-rape and murder of Jyoti Singh, what has changed for women in India? 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z Together, they gathered as much information as they could from Beth’s relatives to fill the gaps in her family tree, but were led down a series of blind alleys. DNA search angels: the Facebook 'detectives' who help reunite families 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z But the impulse to send up the play’s endless red herrings and blind alleys seemed to have been indisputably the right one. Perspective | Who needs a director, anyway? A classical theater in Staunton, Va., lets the actors run the show, and it’s a hit. 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z This debut crime novel, a hit in Britain, is laced with blind alleys; Ms. Lupton is an agreeable manipulator, guiding us down every last one, our suspicions willingly, pleasingly swerving from suspect to suspect. Newly Released Books 2011-06-15T22:35:38Z All the other seats are jimmied into blind alleys and passageways around the open kitchen. Filipino Food Worth the Wait at Bad Saint in Washington 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z “We’ve gone careening down blind alleys and taken countless wrong turns, yet somehow, miraculously, the passion, ingenuity and persistence we have brought to the enterprise have moved us toward a truer understanding of another world.” These Books Transport You to a Galaxy Far, Far Away 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z Eight episodes, here, is too many; the series goes down several blind alleys before it gets to Dealey Plaza. Review: Hulu's 11.22.63 Revives King—and Tries to Save the President 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z En route to the parking spot, we got a quick lesson in the hospitality of Chaouen when our SUV became stuck in a narrow blind alley. A Stroll by the Casbah in Northern Morocco 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The Guardian said "violence, nihilism and despair are keynotes" in what it described as a "confident, well-made film that ends up in a blind alley of cynicism." 'Days of Grace' director Everardo Gout shines light on violence in Mexico 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Which twists and turns, goes up dead ends and down blind alleys. The Suspicions of Mr Whicher; The Fantastic Mr Feynman – TV review 2013-05-13T06:00:25Z A lot of the book is about how the biographical approach to criticism can lead down blind alleys. Whodunit Most Musical by a Musician Most Literary 2011-02-19T01:45:10Z Some viewers may be bored, however, as this legend meanders down a few comic blind alleys. Movie Review: ‘Anchorman 2,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Steve Carell 2013-12-17T21:57:43Z The lessons gleaned from "End Times" could help redirect us away from blind alleys as we seek to find our way through the challenges confronting us in the turbulent 2020s. Welcome to the "End Times": Peter Turchin saw this coming — and says we can still prevent collapse 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Cabinet of scapegoating Albanians because it “has gone down a blind alley with its new policy resulting from Brexit.” Eager young Albanians risk everything for new future in UK 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z In short, you may have to go down several blind alleys to reclaim your account and in the end you may be unsuccessful. Is running old operating systems risky? | Q&A with Patrick Marshall 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Cabinet was scapegoating Albanians because it “has gone down a blind alley with its new policy resulting from Brexit.” Albania: Wrong for Britain to blame Tirana on migrants 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z Science is messy and full of mistakes and blind alleys. Risk aversion is ruining science 2022-05-03T04:00:00Z But even determined efforts to unmask the true owners of offshore accounts could lead down blind alleys. U.S. hunt for Russian oligarchs’ huge fortunes faces barriers offshore The answer is not a return to Communist Party values — they were “a road to a blind alley” — but a long-term strategy for economic development and moral, even spiritual, renewal. Review | How to read Vladimir Putin 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z They wandered down one blind alley after another. Halting Progress and Happy Accidents: How mRNA Vaccines Were Made 2022-01-15T05:00:00Z “The British government has launched a blind alley road with its new policy that has resulted from Brexit,” he said at a news conference. Albania: Wrong for Britain to blame Tirana on migrants 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z “Your moral code has reached its climax, the blind alley at the end of its course,” he said. Column: L.A.'s unvaccinated public workers go Ayn Rand, throw fit over city's vaccine mandate 2021-11-14T05:00:00Z Feynman warns in The Character of Physical Law, “because you will get ‘down the drain,’ into a blind alley from which nobody has yet escaped. Quantum Mechanics, Plato's Cave and the Blind Piranha 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z He’s so quick that there’s nobody up in support and he ends up running down a blind alley. Barcelona v Napoli: Champions League last 16, second leg – live! 2020-08-08T04:00:00Z “There were all sort of blind alleys I went down. But it’s a theological concept, like the Second Coming. There are more than 600 New Hope churches and cemeteries in the U.S.” Forgotten cemetery may be under Miccosukee Greenway trail 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z Rather than chase a suspect into a blind alley, officers are encouraged to call for backup, set a perimeter, and make a plan before closing in. Meet the psychologist exploring unconscious bias—and its tragic consequences for society 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z The foundation helped keep the work alive when drug researchers faced blind alleys and disappointments. Opinion | Persistence pays off in treatment for cystic fibrosis 2019-11-23T05:00:00Z They recognize that research is the act of exploring blind alleys on the way to an important discovery. A Note to the Nobel Prize Selection Committee 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Harry is drunk, despairing, lovesick and lost down blind alleys much of the time. Nordic noir master Jo Nesbø takes another dark twist with 'Knife' 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z In the blind alleys of public health, GoFundMe has become both a first stop and a last resort. The Perverse Logic of GoFundMe Health Care 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z These were dubbed “blind alleys” because they weren’t easily visible from the streets outside. Perspective | The District’s alleys were once grim slums. A few were reborn as hip destinations. 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z It had seemed likely that the investigators would be in for a long haul, with hundreds of names thrown up and months spent scouring each blind alley, analysing every red herring. On the arsonist’s trail: inside Australia’s worst bushfire catastrophe 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Bowden takes us through endless permutations of Welch’s ever-changing story, leading us down every blind alley of obfuscation and pulling us into every whirlpool of internal contradiction. Review | Sifting an inmate’s lies to finally solve an agonizing cold case 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z At the end of the day, I think that engaging in campaigns or political projects based on lies eventually leads societies down a blind alley and that’s really hard to manage.” Spanish PM: Brexit and Catalan independence bid both based on lies 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z There were years when, laboring in his instrument-crammed lab and going down one blind alley after another, he despaired of winning any awards at all. Family Medicine 2019-03-04T05:00:00Z This was followed by a City break when Agüero found Sterling but – as he used to do too often – the wingman ran up a blind alley and was dispossessed. Raheem Sterling gives Manchester City crucial advantage over Schalke 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Yet those who claim we’re heading for a “clash of civilisations” – as first popularised by Samuel Huntington – are taking us down a blind alley. Europe is in the grip of a cult of identity. But we can fight back | Chloé Ridel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z This research area has run into many blind alleys, but there are promising leads. When Will We Solve Mental Illness? 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z He said they expended a huge amount of energy on blind alleys rather than working up a plan to cut the massive costs. Anonymous emails 'not my proudest moment' 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z But if the idea on which this work is based is wrong, researchers could instead be nearing the end of a blind alley. The amyloid hypothesis on trial 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z “It is riddled with trap doors, blind alleys and loopholes designed to allow political consideration to bury any complaint that is politically inconvenient.” Lawmaker charging retaliation wants complaint system changes 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Those who claim we’re heading for a ‘clash of civilisations’ are taking us down a blind alley. Europe is in the grip of a cult of identity. But we can fight back | Chloé Ridel 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z On Tuesday night, investigators were still sorting through a multitude of tips and blind alleys. The Dramatic Last Hours as Agents Stalked the Austin Bomber 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z In the last four decades Stephen pursued many blind alleys in attempts to resolve this paradox. Memories of a Truth-Seeker: Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z When Lynn heard about a new process, developed in Spain, for making perfectly pink, nitrate-free bacon, he assumed it was another blind alley. Yes, bacon really is killing us 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z The cul-de-sac ordinance limits how long blind alleys can be and requires large turnarounds to provide emergency vehicles with easy access, Wollenweber said. Residents, developer dispute over acreage in Michigan 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z You go down every blind alley, every rabbit hole. Perspective | I’m a climate scientist. And I’m not letting trickle-down ignorance win. 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z Already, lots of Trump’s advisers have been whispering that Ryan and his allies have led the president into a blind alley. The budget begins to define an ideology, but is it Trump's? 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z This view, which eventually revealed itself as a blind alley, he graciously abandoned in a 1997 bet - a complete reversal of a 32-year-old belief. Memories of a Truth-Seeker: Stephen Hawking 1942-2018 2018-03-16T04:00:00Z Have we not always missed papers, gone up blind alleys and repeated work while the answer was in the library all along? Don’t let useful data go to waste 2017-02-27T05:00:00Z “A nation that forgets its origins will find itself in a blind alley,” he said in a speech late last month. With Odes to Military March, China Puts Nationalism Into Overdrive 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z In truly original work, there will always be impasses and blind alleys. The Case for Being Messy 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z ‘I went down all the blind alleys myself as a player. a lot of players get lost in those alleys.’ How Henrik Stenson Learned To Win Big After Conquering The Yips - Golf Digest 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z His is a story of why endurance and persistence are essential in the music business – even if your career seems only to consist of blind alleys at the start. Jamie Scott: the songwriting 'fixer' for everyone from Adele to Justin Bieber 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Bossie led them down hundreds of blind alleys through those years which culminated in tens of millions of wasted taxpayer dollars, ruined lives and no criminal wrongdoing on the part of the Clintons. Donald Trump’s Willie Horton moment: Using an old tactic to smear Hillary Clinton 2016-09-02T04:00:00Z So scientists not in the know might waste time exploring a blind alley or be wary about truly promising research. Go forth and replicate! 2016-08-23T04:00:00Z The city recovered the money, but the hunt for many of the workers ran into one blind alley after another. Cab Ride Nets $200,000 for a Construction Worker and His Friends 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Every clue about his life and death seems to lead up a blind alley. Mullah Mansour: The trail of clues after Taliban leader's death - BBC News 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Not only does he say that their input accelerated the research, but also that timely suggestions to change direction kept them away from expensive blind alleys. Tropical disease: A neglected cause : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Drug discovery is time-consuming and full of blind alleys. Competition: Unlikely partnerships : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z But when the jokes don’t land — and the movie does turn down some blind alleys — the result can be dull, the kind of stretches that had me squirming in my theater seat. Pee-wee’s Big Holiday is the perfect Netflix movie: snackable and totally disposable 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z The last time this happened to the lurid, fast-paced, gleefully disreputable world of comics, in the late 1980s, the adoption of adult themes and situations turned out to be a blind alley. Framed! Meet the creators shaking up modern comics 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z I think it’s a dead end, blind alley for them, but let them go. Hillary Clinton Attacks Bernie Sanders Over Gun Control 1457-04-10T05:00:00Z I think it’s a dead end, blind alley for them. 'Let the voters judge': Hillary Clinton dismisses Trump attacks against Bill 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Hillary Clinton says of such tactics: "I think it's a dead end, blind alley for them." Hillary Clinton brushes off Republican Donald Trump's persistent swipes at her husband 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z Vitamin E prevented it! — turned into blind alleys. For tiny infants, too much oxygen can mean blindness. Too little means death. 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z "Ignoring climate change is a blind alley for both the energy business, and for the province of Alberta," she said. Canada's Alberta pledges to do more to price carbon and reduce emissions 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z For long stretches they both found themselves repeatedly forced into a succession of cul-de-sacs and blind alleys. Arsenal capitalise on Mitrovic red and Coloccini error at Newcastle 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z But in a case full of bizarre twists and blind alleys, now it is the South Korean government that will not let her leave. A North Korean Defector’s Regret 2015-08-15T04:00:00Z He hit a blind alley, and short of research funds, abandoned this endeavor. 5 Things You May Not Know About Jonas Salk 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Snail darts are covered with a secretion that closes off blind alleys in the egg-fertilising machinery of the dartee, ensuring the sperm of the darter goes to good use. Till death us do dart 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z The way out of this blind alley isn’t to ignore Egypt but to help it regain power and pride. America is the ally that Egypt needs 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z He acknowledged that medical breakthroughs take time, and investments don’t always pay off because research can sometimes lead experts down blind alleys. Obama seeks $215 million for personalized medicine 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z So a third Romney run will almost certainly be a blind alley for a man who should be thinking of a better way to serve his country and his fellow man. Mitt the Insurgent 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z One obvious story would be why Seung felt that theoretical neuroscience was headed up a blind alley, and why the connectome will save the day. Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z The value of these brilliant individuals to the modern economy is vast and undeniable – but those breakthroughs were also hugely expensive and took years, and uncounted false starts and blind alleys, to achieve. Data Science: Getting Real 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z Scores of frustrated attempts, blind alleys, cruel false hopes and a very remote chance of success. 'The Imitation Game' Sparks a New Wave of Code-Breakers In the movie, his big turn involves a mind-bending tumble through the wormholes and blind alleys of an M. C. Escher graphic. A Last Hurrah for ‘Night at the Museum’ Franchise, and for Robin Williams 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Between Amanda’s separation from her co-workers and her escape, one is led through many a blind alley and through numerous tasks that do not result in any forward momentum. VIDEO GAME REVIEW: “Alien: Isolation” involves more cowering than killing But more fundamentally, there is the striking ignorance of what led Keynes down the same blind alley. Why Oh Why Can't We Have A Better Economist Corps? 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Second, many innocent investigators are misled by such publications and wind up dedicating years of their own research proceeding along paths that will lead down blind alleys. Stem Cell Therapy To Fix The Heart: A House Of Cards About To Fall? 2014-04-28T23:25:00Z It’s full of blind alleys and half-baked ideas, random collisions and abrupt changes in direction. Why Cities Are Our Most Important Innovation Platform 2013-11-09T11:55:00Z "It requires a willful suspension of disbelief to see this agreement as anything other than the start of a diplomatic blind alley," they said. Obama says U.S. remains prepared to act on Syria if diplomacy fails 2013-09-14T19:51:41Z Mr Bezos thanks it for his enthusiasm for experimentation—for “planting seeds” and “going down blind alleys” as he puts it. Schumpeter: Montessori management 2013-09-05T15:00:47Z It adds: "They are just another safety valve, designed to lead good people up a blind alley, and to divide the true nationalist cause." 'One in 10' English Democrats ex-BNP 2013-04-23T13:32:15Z Writing in the scientific journal Nature last week, Simon Wain-Hobson, chair of the Washington-based Foundation for Vaccine Research in the United States, accused flu researchers of going down a dangerous blind alley. Deadly new bird flu vindicates controversial research 2013-04-04T14:27:29Z The chancellor and his cheerleaders have led the country up a blind alley. Britain's downgraded credit rating: Moody's wake-up call must trigger a change of course 2013-02-24T00:06:05Z United must have believed that they could block Real, direct them down blind alleys and so make a grittier conflict of this fixture. From the Vault: Manchester United against Real Madrid in the Bernabéu 2013-02-13T09:00:00Z “The Clearing” advances the thriller subplot slowly, and takes our characters down some blind alleys, but it’s very revealing of Homeland’s human story. Homeland Watch: Wine and Cheese 2012-11-12T09:55:00Z In fact, it is full of blind alleys—as a fossil called Microraptor shows. Palaeontology: Four wings, good. Two wings, better 2012-11-08T16:00:15Z Mr Bezos was in town to promote, among other things, one of those innovations which some thought might be a blind alley, the Kindle Fire. Bezos and the future of books 2012-10-11T17:01:07Z They went down a number of blind alleys before getting the first indication of the Chinese subsidy program over the summer. Obama Exploits Familiar Junction of Policy and Politics 2012-09-20T01:27:06Z Sometimes, those blind alleys open up into a broad avenue.” Amazon Unveils Kindle PaperWhite, 9-inch Kindle Fire, New Whispersync Features 2012-09-06T18:33:33Z Too often, as Mencken infers, we look for clarity where there is none and, as a result, striving for simplicity leads us into a blind alley. Effectively Guide Your Team to Tackle Problems (Big and Small) 2012-07-26T18:40:19Z The concern is that the tests will "send you down blind alleys," said Reed Tuckson, UnitedHealth's executive vice president and chief of medical affairs. Some insurers hesitate to embrace genetic testing 2012-07-11T01:45:00Z I went down a bunch of blind alleys and made a bunch of false starts and was getting really frustrated. Cyber Crime to Crime Novel: Dennis Fisher Discusses 'Motherless Children' 2012-06-26T01:25:25Z Though he always chooses his words carefully, on this occasion he paused often for long periods and more than once veered down a verbal blind alley. Eurozone crisis: Mario Monti defends Italy's record 2012-06-21T23:03:04Z "If they became, in a sense, more representative of their members as a whole they would not be leading either themselves or the Labour Party down what I regard as a pretty blind alley." Mandelson fears Labour infighting 2012-06-17T10:40:05Z However when your striker is expert blind alley locator Milan Baros, sometimes a draw will do just fine. Euro 2012: Czech Republic v Poland – live! 2012-06-16T17:45:01Z The annual process of compiling this list highlights switchbacks and blind alleys. Why There Are Fewer Women Than Men on the TIME 100 2012-04-18T11:30:48Z "Middle Europe" belongs to the Middle Ages, Berlin-Bagdad is a blind alley and not the way into the open country, to unlimited possibilities, to the world-mission of the German nation. My Mission to London 1912-1914 2012-04-17T02:00:14.497Z Crossing what the Europeans call "West Street," he entered a dark thoroughfare, a blind alley, at the end of which was a solitary, blood-red Chinese lantern, suspended above a door. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z It has been a series of blind alleys, and all we have succeeded in doing is knocking our heads. The Million Dollar Mystery Novelized from the Scenario of F. Lonergan 2012-03-15T02:00:21.153Z One who is capable of earning a living under favorable circumstances, in the absence of aggressive competition and without close supervision, can find his or her level in the "blind alley" occupations. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Wherever I wandered in my rambles, he was sure to turn the corner just ahead of me, or to spring from the covert of some blind alley. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Having crossed the main street that runs parallel to the river, Ling turned into a by-street, and thence into the blind alley, at the termination of which was Ah Wu's opium den. Held by Chinese Brigands 2012-03-26T02:00:40.573Z But let him turn his back on these buildings, and his eye met, in cramped street and blind alley, a lower depth. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z Apparently they were in nothing but a blind alley, for there seemed no possible way out, except the path by which they had come. A Terrible Tomboy 2012-01-21T03:00:07.003Z It is important to note that the employments here referred to are not "blind alley" occupations. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z "I shan't waste any time running up blind alleys," she said sharply. In Jeopardy 2012-01-04T03:00:35.013Z The poor woman after entering so many blind alleys in her life, had finally found the true path, the one she herself, more fortunate, had discovered while still in her youth. The Enemies of Women (Los enemigos de la mujer) 2012-01-02T03:00:27.980Z It is not a blind alley, as it is of elbow shape with two entrances connecting streets, though only used by persons of profound local knowledge. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z It is fresh and hot from the press of Jan a Calumnia, living near the Vagabonds’ Quay, in the blind alley of the Thieves of Honour.” The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z Since these can fill the "blind alley" occupations with fair satisfaction they should be "guided" into the first available positions of this kind. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z Angered thoroughly he sent a shot after it and then followed it, finally capturing it in a blind alley. Hopalong Cassidy 2011-12-08T03:00:21.663Z A turn to the left ended in a blank wall which formed a blind alley. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z But it was not in Jefferson's temperament to try to overcome insuperable obstacles or stay very long in a blind alley. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z And if there ever was a blind alley in philosophy, it is Pragmatism—the very essence of agnosticism. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z They have come to be called "blind alley" occupations, and refer to such work as that of errand boys, elevator and telephone operators, small clerks, domestic servants, nursemaids, messengers, delivery boys, and teamsters. Vocational Psychology: Its Problems and Methods 2012-02-24T03:00:25.813Z A blind alley, the end of which was in shadow, where one must walk alone and in almost total darkness. The Whirligig of Time 2011-11-04T02:00:23.063Z The reader is never allowed to wander into a blind alley. Charlotte Bront? A Monograph 2011-11-01T02:00:20.233Z This entrance lay in a short blind alley off the main street, the end of which seemed to be closed by a stableyard. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z Uncertain of the original language, the researchers went down several blind alleys before following their hunches. How 18th-Century Copiale Cipher Was Cracked 2011-10-24T20:58:26Z You've been offered a rattling good berth with nothing of the 'blind alley' touch about it. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z But now that she was momentarily interested he stopped short at once, as at the entrance of a blind alley. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z Cul-de-lampe, an ornamental design used in filling up blank spaces in a book; Cul-de-sac, a street, &c., closed at one end: a blind alley. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z Then, if it turns out to be a blind alley, you have the satisfaction of saying nothing, very eloquently and effectively. Of All Things 2011-10-09T02:00:26.957Z It was an enclosure at the back of a shop in a blind alley, where he had a cot that stood not on the floor, for there was no floor, but on the earth. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z His only way out of this blind alley was free-lance journalism, and for this an opportunity soon presented itself. The life and teaching of Karl Marx 2011-09-03T02:00:19.203Z Whenever one of the rabbits felt inclined he dug a new passage, but as he generally left it unfinished, there were many blind alleys which led nowhere in particular. Lives of the Fur Folk 2011-08-20T02:00:13.820Z Where the Wales coaches have changed mindsets, with the players having opted to avoid alchohol last week to ensure their clear-headedness in Cardiff, England are in danger of disappearing up a familiar blind alley. Wales 19-9 England 2011-08-14T22:00:01Z Mr. Bezos often compares Amazon’s strategy of developing ideas in new markets to ‘planting seeds’ or ‘going down blind alleys.’ Why No Apple In The Food Industry -- Part 2: The Accenture Innovation Engine 2011-08-09T16:26:09Z A girl will start what she calls a ‘blind alley’ sometimes, just to tease the freshies. Marjorie Dean, College Senior 2011-08-01T02:00:12.720Z Most American women are not satisfied to follow a blind alley. Japan and the California Problem 2011-07-25T02:00:13.940Z In France, some observers believe Germany is heading down an expensive blind alley and will revisit the nuclear question at some point. Splitting the atomic world 2011-07-19T07:07:57Z When we begin inquiring whether the spirit is free or not, we set out on an 126 erroneous track which will take us into a blind alley with no possibility of exit. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z I came up this blind alley, and, looking sharply, descried that glimmer of light. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z We both apparently come into the same ‘blind alley,’ and see the absurdity of running against a stone wall. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z We wandered about helplessly for some time, getting into blind alleys and streets that led nowhere, and thus having to retrace our steps over and over again. The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z Finally, a wall blocked farther progress: she was in a blind alley. Ancient Manners Also Known As Aphrodite 2011-06-13T02:00:23.863Z No blind alleys and thieves’ dens in this”—page 33. Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z We dodged the dark, blind alley, sheltered the candle from the drizzling mist, and went around into the kitchen and called Hector from above. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z Every village, and hamlet, and blind alley has one, at least. Trial of the Officers and Crew of the Privateer Savannah, on the Charge of Piracy, in the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York 2011-06-05T02:00:10.927Z Mr. Harford: Here’s the challenge: by its very nature, innovation requires a lot of exploration and a lot of blind alleys. Economix: Author?s Plea for More Trial and Error 2011-05-09T17:00:50Z "Blockhead!" said the knight; "where hast thou ever found castles and royal palaces built in blind alleys?" The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha 2011-05-01T02:00:10.977Z No blind alleys and thieves dens in this; it’s for to-morrow evening, too.” Dangerous Ground or, The Rival Detectives 2011-06-11T02:00:11.853Z "The builder who designed this was certainly demented," said one of the party, pointing to the blind alley, with its waste of wall. The Haunted Homestead A Novel 2011-07-13T02:00:22.920Z One of those blind alleys, letting small shops sell books on the company’s website, now accounts for a third of its sales. Schumpeter: Fail often, fail well 2011-04-14T10:51:41Z Its blind alleys and dark lanes, its narrow, crabbed, crooked streets were bright with little flags hung out of the little stuffed-up windows, and yet brighter with bright faces that hurried to and fro. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z I will devote little space to the many arcane blind alleys and red herrings that lure even the most successful scientists—and Feynman was no exception—as they claw their way to scientific understanding. From One Physicist to Another: Lawrence Krauss Reflects on the Life and Work of Richard Feynman 2011-03-18T13:45:00.513Z “Sometimes synchronicity doesn’t lead down the path of collective wisdom,” says Uzzi, “but down the blind alley of mob madness.” Jumping on the Bandwagon Brings Rewards 2011-03-15T16:15:00Z Every time she seems to have turned a corner, as her strong performances in winning nationals and the Grand Prix Final back-to-back had suggested, Czisny suddenly wanders into a blind alley on the other side. Cinquanta: Fate of figure skating worlds must be decided 'within 3 or 4 days' 2011-03-14T15:16:36Z The National Republicans felt sure that they had driven Jackson into a blind alley. The Middle Period 1817-1858 2011-03-14T03:01:05.737Z I could guess those of the other two—Babbitts' chagrin at once again losing his big story, O'Mally's sullen indignation at having followed a clue that led to such a blind alley. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z Right I figured as a way which seemed to finish in a blind alley or cul-de-sac, but which, as one neared what seemed to be its end, led off in a new direction. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z Accusing the police of lacking professionalism, opposition Socialist Party leader Edi Rama said: "My call for the so-called premier is to refrain from taking our society and country further down a blind alley." Albanian PM defiant after unrest 2011-01-22T07:43:47Z From the Quai on the left was a blind alley that ended at a row of houses. Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z She knew that the wash led nowhere, that it was a blind alley, a cul-de-sac ending in a rock-strewn, unclimbable slope that was the base of Block Mountain. The Rider of Golden Bar 2011-01-04T03:01:06.347Z These "deep" axioms are implicit in economics as well but, if left unscrutinised, they can steer policymakers into a blind alley. What do deficit slashers wear under their hair shirts? 2010-07-21T13:30:00Z It was five or six days since Larry Strangways's call, and no real development of my blind alley was in sight. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z It confidently puts him in the wrong place and sends him haring down blind alleys. Journeying in eastern Europe: Planes, trains and extortionate taxis 2010-04-26T12:26:00Z The discovery should help avoid blind alleys in producing new vaccines. HIV's link to salmonella offers vaccine clues 2010-04-22T18:22:00Z There are plenty of suggestions for where the profession should be heading once it has backed out of its blind alley. George Soros group seeks solution for crisis in economics 2010-04-04T23:05:00Z There are no mysterious labyrinths, dark lanes, or blind alleys in the city; all the avenues cross each other at right angles and are uniform in width. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands No matter which way I turn," he said, "I run into a blind alley. The Window at the White Cat "Besides that, we are still groping in the blind alleys of the mysteries," she put in. Stranded in Arcady The Yosemite Valley is somewhat like a blind alley. Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway Things will right themselves in time, you know; and there are lots of blind alleys in the pursuit of Justice which we often imagine to be the royal road to Rome. The Riddle of the Spinning Wheel In a hurry I run up another blind alley, and lo and behold another pair of ladies make their entrance on the scene. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second He had groped in shadows and had been conscious only of a blind alley, with a dead wall, somewhere, near at hand. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel There are no blind alleys, no narrow lanes, no rag-fair in the imperial capital. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Had he not promised too much and did he not feel himself in a blind alley with no way out, where he no longer dared either to advance or retreat? Michelangelo Most certainly, many will end up in blind alleys. The Unlearned What narrow and squalid streets, what blind alleys, what there is of filth and ruin in the great capital of intelligence, he may find out afterwards for himself. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 Contiguous to the avenue was a wider highway which, descending from the remotest past, had at the time narrowed into a blind alley. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern If I could just have been around somewhere when friend Schwartzmann found his scouts had led him up a blind alley, it would have been worth the trip. Brood of the Dark Moon Whitaker followed, to be led down a blind alley between the theatre and the adjoining hotel. The Destroying Angel Now it was “up to” us skilfully to steer the boat between the irregularly spread mines and see carefully to it that we did not get into a blind alley. The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative In the center of town, this would be a blind alley, but in this section it wasn't. Tangle Hold The man was simply following a blind alley of reasoning, set off by his life-long frustration of battling cancer. Unbegotten Child They passed along the street until they reached a narrow blind alley into which the moonlight fell but dimly between dusky walls. Eleven Possible Cases Here was the very street up which he and Madelon had fled; yonder was the entrance to the blind alley that led into the stable-yard. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure Untrained domestic work is a blind alley and leads nowhere. Loyal to the School The bland blackguards with black whiskers know the geography of Europe as well as they know the blind alleys about Houndsditch. A Rent In A Cloud The “butcher’s boy” has obtained traditional currency; but, according to George Keats, the offender was “a scoundrel in livery,” the locality “a blind alley at Hampstead.” Life of John Keats He tried to discover the blind alley into which the Judge had led him on that eventful evening, but there was no such alley to discover. Eleven Possible Cases Subtle analysis is all very well, but it is apt to lead to blind alleys. Scotland Yard The methods and organisation of the Metropolitan Police She led the way to the most crowded quarter of St. Giles's, and when she had reached the entrance of a dark blind alley, called Hine's-court, turned into it, and beckoned me to follow. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 It might almost be called a blind alley. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages His exploration of the situation, though carried on by aid of recalled experience instead of by locomotion, still resembles finding the way out of a maze with many blind alleys. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Thinking to open up a new path, they got entangled in a blind alley where they were left. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare His soul cried for action of some sort, but he was up against a blind alley, and he knew it. Seven Keys to Baldpate One moment judgment may map out a course as clear as the noonday, and the next moment emotion may lead judgment into a blind alley. Captain Pott's Minister For until that arrives the creative forces must inevitably spend themselves very largely in blind alleys, futile rushes and destructive conflicts. The Passionate Friends Whenever the rat finds himself in a blind alley, he comes out and enters the other door, so finally getting his reward on every trial. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life "A blind alley," he groaned. ne of the two who had been their advance guard snapped his rifle to his shoulder. Two Thousand Miles Below And suddenly he found himself in a blind alley, and knew that he could not find his way back to the Ghetto. Dreamers of the Ghetto There are along life's path partings of the way, as it were; on one side the main line of life continues onward, the other path leads into what we might call a blind alley. The Rosicrucian Mysteries An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings He ran into blind alleys, into small threading streets about the court, which led him back into the central place of assembly. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Replaced at the starting point, he proceeds as before, though with more speed and less dallying in the blind alleys. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life It was unlike Bobby Dane to go off like this into conversational blind alleys. The Dominant Strain I mistook the way and turned aside into a blind alley for a moment. A Mountain Boyhood It's but a little way west of Washington Square, is a blind alley in an old section, and is now one of the best studio districts in New York. Mixed Faces The efforts that he made to find positions commensurate with his ambitions had ended in blind alleys. The Vagrant Duke On successive trials he goes less and less deeply into a blind alley, till finally he passes the entrance to it without even turning his head. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life "Then this clue, like all the others in this singular case," he remarked, "seems to end in a blind alley." The Film of Fear And the only way practicable out of this blind alley would be the spontaneous abandonment by the Russian Government of the right it possesses, which however the Allies will certainly never call in question. England and Germany All human thought ends in the blind alley of Paradox. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real The path before him was no longer a blind alley leading from danger into chaos. The Web of the Golden Spider Thus eliminating the blind alleys one after another, he comes at length to run by a fixed route from start to finish. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life Noiselessly, gliding past the houses like shadows, revolver in hand, dark lantern at waist, fifteen detectives in plain clothes had converged on the tall house in the blind alley. A Nest of Spies Rainey got out of his blind alley of thought and started into the main cabin to give Lund the news. A Man to His Mate At the corners of the walls and blind alleys, placards in French and German were posted, embodying regulations governing the village under Prussian military rule. The Maids of Paradise He knew what that meant; this road was like a blind alley, with no outlet. The Web of the Golden Spider Patsy’s mind groped out of the present into the past; it was all a blind alley, however, and led nowhere. Seven Miles to Arden By a labyrinth of little streets, all darkness and mystery, Vagualame had led his companion to a kind of blind alley: a tall house blocked the end of it. A Nest of Spies The traveler may conscientiously omit a visit to the blind alley which contains the Museum of Antiquities at Cordova. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The very boys fought in the vacant lots, and reveled in the strategy of crooked streets and blind alleys. The Art of Disappearing It is nothing else than the stuffy, blind alley known as the Devil's Kitchen. Wild Animals at Home There are no mysterious labyrinths, dark lanes, or blind alleys in the city; the avenues are all uniform in width. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Perhaps with Bouvard et Pécuchet he got into a blind alley, out of which such labour was never like to get him, and in which it was rather likely to confine him. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Lastly, in the inner surface of the cork which closes the jar I sink a cylindrical well, a blind alley, of the same diameter as the corridors of the Anthophora. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Once they missed the right turn, wandered down a blind alley, and plunged into a pile of offal awaiting the scavenger dogs. A Victor of Salamis The blank door of an empty house never intrigues you; you enter blind alleys without thrilling in the least; you hear a cry in the night and impute it to some marauding tom. The Pagan Madonna But the gorge was a cul de sac—a beautiful blind alley, with mountains' flanks for walls. Jonah and Co. The quicksilver of human consciousness must have no closed chinks, no blind alleys. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Talking of blind alleys puts me in mind of your last. Tom Brown at Oxford Here was another blind alley out of which she had to retrace her steps. The Place of Honeymoons He had been a moral coward; he had tried to run away from fate; and here he was at last, in the blind alley the coward always found at the end of the run. The Pagan Madonna “Yes, ma’am,” said Helen, slowly, fearing that she had unwittingly got into a blind alley of conversation. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City My theories and my acts had led me into a mental cul-de-sac, a blind alley, where, in lack of exit, I took hold of every straw that the wind of thought set flying. The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea Furneaux seemed to be satisfied that he was following a blind alley, and Winter became the inquisitor. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley To all appearances the adventure on which he had started out had brought him to an impasse, a blind alley, from which there was no favourable issue of any kind. Antony Gray,—Gardener Their different species are like so many blind alleys, as if, by renouncing the mode of alimentation customary amongst vegetables, they had been brought to a standstill on the highway of vegetable evolution. Creative Evolution I’m tired of this blind alley of inaction. The Prairie Mother It seemed to her that Considine's incredulity was forcing them both into a blind alley. The Tragic Bride The English people are perpetually squeezing themselves into courtyards, blind alleys, closed edifices, and other places where they have no sort of business. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 1, 1833-1856 The space-binding animal standard of miscivilization has brought us to an impasse—a blind alley—for the simple physical reason that there is no more space to “bind.” Manhood of Humanity. He was, in addition, a man who would never let anything go once he had got hold of it, unless he was convinced that he was up a blind alley. What The Left Hand Was Doing Two miners refused to enter, saying that we were throwing ourselves into a blind alley. Nobody's Boy Sans Famille Or, again, he painfully and uselessly pursues the blind alleys which they had wandered in, and from which a perusal of their works would have warned off later comers. Science and Morals and Other Essays You may say to me, 'Have you led me into a blind alley, out of which I cannot get? Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John I daresay I'd love the children, and be quite happy in a way, but the worst of it is, it's such a blind alley, and leads to nothing. A harum-scarum schoolgirl In spite of the incompetents you kept sending, in spite of mistakes and blind alleys, the work on Whitney is done—and successfully. Greener Than You Think He is driving us into a blind alley, and, unless we are very careful, he will have us cribb'd, cabin'd, and confined before we know where we are. Mushrooms on the Moor Jones recognized that the new position into which he had strayed was a blind alley. The Man Who Lost Himself It would do for a while ... if he didn't suffocate ... but if this ship was organized like smaller ones, it would be a blind alley. Gold in the Sky A number of boys were playing marbles outside the church-yard wall, in a blind alley. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer He then explored various blind alleys, known haunts of the missing man, and took a careful survey of the wharves along the river on his way home. A Rivermouth Romance Then, sir, I would advise you to lose no time in doing so; you must visit all the bookstalls, sir, especially those in the bystreets and blind alleys. Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest There was not a retired court, a dark lane, or a blind alley, with which he was unfamiliar. Sunk at Sea It was a side corridor, and a blind alley; it ended in a large hatchway marked HYDROPONICS, and there were no branching corridors. Gold in the Sky It is in streets of p. 308this description, sir, and blind alleys, where such works are to be found. Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) This brought the Roman world into a blind alley from which it could not escape.... Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles It may be a chronic sense of not fitting in, of being lost in a blind alley. Human Traits and their Social Significance The detective who habitually used the deductive method would spend a great deal of his time exploring blind alleys. The Grell Mystery Then Miles tried a second double, and got into a narrow street, which a single glance showed him was a blind alley! Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan Between two of these they drove for some time before they found that they were going into a sort of blind alley. The World of Ice “Now, Frank, into your canoe and show us the way; mind we trust to your guidance to keep us clear of blind alleys among these lanes of water in the ice.” Ungava If, as so frequently happens, these combine, along with their peculiar temperaments, little genius and slender means, social and economic life becomes for them a blind alley. Human Traits and their Social Significance They kept pocketing themselves provokingly in blind alleys that led nowhere, or scattering in mazes that led everywhere. Every Man for Himself Jersey Street is not only a blind alley, but a dead one, so far as outside life is concerned, and Judge Phœnix and little sister see pretty much the same old two-and-sixpence every day. Jersey Street and Jersey Lane Urban and Suburban Sketches She had come to the end of a blind alley. The Blue Envelope There are no narrow lanes or blind alleys either, the abode of poverty and pestilence, within the precincts of the palaces of the wealthy and great. Fred Markham in Russia The Boy Travellers in the Land of the Czar He passed along for two blocks and then turned into a side street and then into a blind alley. Randy of the River The Adventures of a Young Deckhand At the entrance to the little gallery of the broken column it diverged, one part leading into the gallery, and the other into a sort of blind alley at one side. The Four Pools Mystery A blind alley ran off from the main trench and it was this that the two boys were following. Fighting in France The Vicolo Agnus Dei—a blind alley of low jutting houses over arcades, full of squalor, pink wash, children, and cats—was on this early morning ablaze with colour and music. Little Novels of Italy To the latter cause are due the lacunæ, the blind alleys, and the complications which the otherwise simple scale of perfection shows. Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology Nothing was to be seen; but, turning a sharp corner at the end of one passage leading to another which was apparently a blind alley, they stopped suddenly. Hunter's Marjory A Story for Girls There have been futile experiments without number; highly successful achievements have been thrown aside; one type of life after another has arisen and has pushed up a blind alley to extinction. The Necessity of Atheism Some lead to spacious results; others are blind alleys. A Preface to Politics You know nearly all the byways and blind alleys of this part of London. Sue, A Little Heroine Suddenly her eyes brightened, she tossed her head, and following what was apparently a little blind alley of shrubbery, she plunged into a tangle of undergrowth and disappeared. While Caroline Was Growing We discovered one of these underground palaces at the end of a blind alley leading off from the main trench. Kitchener's Mob Adventures of an American in the British Army And it is due to this close association of religion and medicine that ideas of the greatest scientific moment have been throttled at birth or veered into a blind alley through some current theological lunacy. The Necessity of Atheism The room we occupied was at the end of a blind alley, up a flight of nine stone steps. Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 They searched the blind alley, going into every house. Sue, A Little Heroine I cannot put my own case to the Admiralty although the machines are wanted for overland tactics—a fatal blind alley. Gallipoli Diary, Volume I It looked indeed like a blind alley; but in the end the duke yielded. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl This picture is from a photograph of one of the many tenements in the North End which front upon blind alleys. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 It’s a blind alley, and if the fellow went down here we sure have him!” Andy at Yale Or, The Great Quadrangle Mystery At other times he was like the ordinary Philistine, blindly worshipping games, never seeing that they led nowhere, and were as a blind alley. The Loom of Youth It was absolutely without issue—a mere blind alley in the earth. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth He was at the end of a blind alley, where there was no light from any direction except that by which he had entered it. Stand By The Union A great diplomat perhaps, but the road you've started on to-night can only lead you at last into a blind alley. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis Axiom, "Unknown Bohemianism is not a path, it is a blind alley." Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Some pedigrees may be like a blind alley, they will lead us nowhere. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 Tom returned down out of these blind alleys, his hands scratched, his clothing torn, and resumed his way along the road doggedly, saying little. Tom Slade on Mystery Trail We saw them on street corners—coming up cellar steps, slinking in and out of blind alleys—never where it was light—and they shrank from each other, but not from the policeman. The Chief Legatee He had been born in the River Ward of Hammersmith in that blind alley known to the police and the inhabitants as Tiger Bay. Boy Woodburn A Story of the Sussex Downs At length, however, we turned up a blind alley, lit by one struggling gas-jet, and knocked at a low door. Dead Man's Rock A few hundred yards away, in another street, the colonel, Bruce and Ahmed were dragging a net for the purpose of laying it for a lion at bay in a blind alley. The Adventures of Kathlyn But he had never felt such a delicious shiver as he did on the day on which he penetrated into that old house in the blind alley in Ménilmontant. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 3 My next step was to try to find out what Mantell's wing men had seen or thought but this was a blind alley. The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects The country was approaching the throes of a crisis, and as yet the future was a blind alley to him. The Half-Hearted In this clear, limpid atmosphere only a sick soul could believe in a blind alley from which there was no escape. The Sheriff's Son It is the very devil in this network of lanes and blind alleys which twist round the Legations, and no force could properly patrol them.... Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation This is done in the Ruhmkorff coil primary; the condenser forms a sort of blind alley for the extra current on its beginning to flow out of the primary coil. Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 But a sketch of the Christian slope may well end with the Impressionists, for Impressionist theory is a blind alley. Art But, though Enoch, and the others, when he had roused them, beat the tiny blind alley thoroughly, not so much as a cottontail reward their efforts. The Enchanted Canyon I had evidently then strayed from the right course while wandering through the tunnel, and thus come by mischance into this blind alley. Jacqueline of Golden River One reason is that one is so apt to go down the same blind alleys over and over again, if one proceeds without method. Amusements in Mathematics Here are nothing but lies to be expected: I'll even go lose myself in some blind alley, and try if any courteous damsel will think me worth the finding. The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 06 "Suppose that I had never come to Rackham Park!" said Harry Luttrell, suddenly turning at the end of a blind alley. The Summons "Now; where in God's name are we?" said I. We had ridden into some kind of blind alley, I presently saw; and that was why Dolly's horse had halted. Oddsfish! This yard was separated only by a rotting fence with a single wooden rail from a small blind alley. Jacqueline of Golden River It will be seen that I have suppressed all the blind alleys by the shading. Amusements in Mathematics Gallantry is a noble quality when joined to wisdom and foresight; alone, it leads into pits and blind alleys. The Grey Cloak It is a blind alley and leads nowhere. The Child of the Dawn They had argued, analysed, plotted, and planned, only to find that each road they launched out upon full of hope, terminated in the blind alley of the old man's power over the girl. Leonie of the Jungle That track reveal'd to Pope— Or if the Arctic waters sally, Or terminate in some blind alley, A chilly path to grope? The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood When by a new path you come to an old node or to the stop of a blind alley, return by the path you came. Amusements in Mathematics The blind alley of life stretching out before her, with its secret doorways and hidden menaces; and she was unconcerned. The Ragged Edge The politically minded classes, whose education had not trained them to deal with such questions, were apt to lose themselves in such blind alleys as the "doctrine of drain." India, Old and New When last I saw her, she lived in a little cottage in a blind alley. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) Classic Tales and Old-Fashioned Stories She chose for dignity and opportunity, was tempted to grasp at love, and thus finally came into a blind alley from which death was the only escape. H. G. Wells And very distinguished as are many of the modern exponents of this side of things, history tells us, I think, that they are working in a blind alley. Recent Developments in European Thought Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. The Ragged Edge In trying to break some strange news he had walked up a blind alley and been met by my blank wall of density. Tell England A Study in a Generation For centuries he has followed false trails, ending in blind alleys, and only lately does he seem to have found the road that shall lead him to his journey's end. Outwitting Our Nerves A Primer of Psychotherapy The walls are tall, and form a labyrinth of gloomy passages and treacherous blind alleys, where the Moors of old might meet with a ferocious welcome. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The general National feelings of the British Public are proverbially interested in every endeavour to obtain “a blind alley, and no Fantoccini.” Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 The room in which Fox sat seemed to be hopelessly off the road—to be hopelessly off any road to any place; to be the end of a blind alley. The Inheritors My tomb is not a blind alley; it is a thoroughfare. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration The second, third, and fourth the same; and he began to fear they were all blind alleys leading nowhere. A Maid of the Silver Sea Don't you realize that that is a blind alley? The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People We followed our uncle—the end of a blind alley gave us a resting-place. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841 Changeful twenty, where so many paths reach out into the great world, paths straight and narrow, of devious turnings which end at precipices, of blind alleys which lead nowhere and close in behind! The Goose Girl So far as the law went he was in a blind alley. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Not so now; now I am in a blind alley. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 It is the feeling that men have gone into blind alleys often enough, and that somehow there must be found an open road through which men may pass to some purpose. The New Freedom A Call For the Emancipation of the Generous Energies of a People For the War released organized labor from a blind alley, as it were. A History of Trade Unionism in the United States It was the vintner who caused this cry; and the agility with which he scrambled through the window into the blind alley was an inspiration. The Goose Girl It struck Dave that he had run into a blind alley. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Nobody spreads fever in blind alleys and unswept lanes. Thrift They were in a sort of blind alley. Là-bas Again Johnny seemed to have reached the end of a blind alley in his thinking. Triple Spies The window which led to the blind alley was six feet from the floor, twice as broad as it was high, and unbarred. The Goose Girl We would sit down at opposite ends of the room to construct our mysteries of blind alleys and misleading passages, then each one would be turned loose in the "irrgarten" drawn by the other. Shandygaff The greatest care should be taken to diminish the number of those who endeavour to achieve quasi-independence in those occupations which are well known as "blind alleys." Youth and Sex We found, however, plenty of fish—specially salmon, which were in great quantities wherever, in the blind alleys of the backwaters, we put down the fish-spear. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 Practice is perpetually following after anterior theoretical morality, in so far of course as ideal morality really is anterior and not, as so often happens, astray up a blind alley. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society I come from haunts of smoke and grime, I start in some blind alley, And race each night against Old Time Enthusiastically! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, March 21, 1891 It is a dull, squalid, narrow thoroughfare in the East End of London, connecting Spitalfields with Whitechapel, and branching off in blind alleys. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People The best of trades is a blind alley, educationally speaking. Creative Impulse in Industry A Proposition for Educators But as I approached, the immense mass always opened as if by magic, and I pursued my way without hindrance to the consulate, which lies hidden in a little narrow blind alley. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Here, too, in a blind alley opening off the Rue St. Jacques, yet stands part of that Carmelite Convent in which, for thirty years, Madame de la Vallière expiated the solitary frailty of her life. In the Days of My Youth Those fellows won’t come in that way,—it’s too much like a blind alley.” The House of a Thousand Candles You had run your dream of distress into a blind alley. The Inferno Keith had no clue to start with at all, and to begin with all his efforts led him into the blindest of blind alleys. The Soul of a Child Thus, once more, my reasoning only led me into a blind alley at the end of which was the will, regular and valid and fulfilling all the requirements that the law imposed. The Mystery of 31 New Inn Perhaps a man more trained in outwitting circumstances would have found a way out of the difficulty, but Stillman could see only blind alleys leading from every desire of his heart.... The Blood Red Dawn But I do know that the entire book developed, howsoever helterskelter, and after fumbling in no matter how many blind alleys, from that first memorandum about the troubling window of Ageus. Figures of Earth Between two of these they drove for some time, before they found that they were going into a sort of blind alley. The World of Ice Marry, sir, thy tongue will run thee into a blind alley! Master Skylark It is indeed a blind alley in which she has so often to move. The Trade Union Woman And then: "Would you like to have your quo warranto blind alley turned into a thoroughfare?" The Grafters The whole race question seemed to have reached a sort of impasse, a blind alley, of which no one could see the outlet. The Marrow of Tradition Strange solitary pumps were found near Todgers's hiding themselves for the most part in blind alleys, and keeping company with fire-ladders. Martin Chuzzlewit Recognizing "blind alleys" in children's fiction, such as the boarding school story and the covert love story, and buying no new titles of those types. Library Work with Children I could have told him from the beginning that this obsession of his over the coffee was bound to end in a blind alley, but I restrained my tongue. The Mysterious Affair at Styles The civilization we have boasted of is a toy-shop and a blind alley, and I hanker for the open country.' Greenmantle We interviewed also through a grating in a mud wall closing a blind alley an immensely corpulent Italian, who, the ex-sergeant-major remarked to me perfunctorily, had "killed another man last year." Falk A Reminiscence In fact, I felt them against my very hands, for in my mad race I had shot up a blind alley—a street that ended in a garden behind an iron fence. In the Bishop's Carriage What horrible fate was it that had involved him—nay, that had caught this sweet delicate girl in such a blind alley? The House Behind the Cedars It was a brave blind alley, where to pass was impossible and where, unless they stuck fast, they would have—which was always awkward—publicly to back out. The Ambassadors Then, with the feeling that she had followed a blind alley to its termination, she retreated and made a fresh start. Miss Billy — Married It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a blind alley; and it looked like the end of the world. The Innocence of Father Brown In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land. Les Misérables Other ways have been sought, and have been found no more than blind alleys. The Conquest of Fear On they went, side by side, between houses of gloom and silence, and thus, in a while, came to another narrow street, or rather, blind alley, at the foot of which were the stables. The Amateur Gentleman Don't let the years lead you into a blind alley. Star-Dust Was this really the place, and was that opening beyond the third steps the very blind alley where Janie used to live? Lo, Michael! The fragmentary lane was prolonged between buildings which were either sheds or barns, then ended at a blind alley. Les Misérables In the middle of this thicket stood an old summer-house in the Chinese style: a wooden paling separated the garden from a blind alley. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories Thousands of ballads, caricatures, lives, of Mrs. Clarke, in every blind alley. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 They prowled to such good purpose that they discovered, at the rear of the building, opening into a blind alley, a narrow wooden stairway. The Gray Dawn But, though they have already unearthed much that is useful, measuring and recording and comparing with ever finer and sharper instruments, they are still digging in a direction that inevitably leads into a blind alley. The Bride of Dreams Again, in a standard maze, the blind alleys should all be of the same length, and care should be taken to provide a sufficiently strong and uniform motive for escape. The Dancing Mouse A Study in Animal Behavior From behind the trees, in the direction of the blind alley, came a distinct sound of two knocks, as though some one were tapping at the paling. The Diary of a Superfluous Man and Other Stories But things ended there, in a sort of blind alley. The Mountebank She stumbled along in her first answer "like a blind man in a blind alley," so Jess Morse declared. The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause On the whole I think they have got into a blind alley, but I am glad you are going to obtain Hines' opinion. Woodrow Wilson as I Know Him Surely, surely, to believe that the grave is a blind alley, with no exit at the other end,—to believe that, however it may minister to a quiet departure, is no victory over the grave. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah If we go right on the road which He has traced out, it will never lead us into a blind alley. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII He led the way to the bar and then through a back room or two, until with a turn we were in a blind alley. Blindfolded The mule is notoriously a profane and godless creature; a blind alley of Nature, so to speak, a mistake of which she is ashamed, and which she does not permit to reproduce itself. King Coal : a Novel The day dwelt in her memory as a long stretch of aimless hours: blind alleys of time that led up to a dead wall of inaction. Sanctuary The far side of the yard was separated by a low stone wall from the end of a blind alley leading into Eastgate Street. The Yeoman Adventurer For some time Mr. Polly remained alone with his charge in the little blind alley outside the Larkins’ house, while the neighbours scrutinised him from behind their blinds. The History of Mr. Polly The Via Media, alluring as is its direction, imposing as are its portals, is, after all, only what Londoners call a blind alley, leading nowhere. Obiter Dicta So he goes straight on the road marked for him, quite sure that it will not end in a blind alley, from which there is no exit. Expositions of Holy Scripture One night a young man—son of one of the city's plunging millionaire wheat speculators—was found dead in a little blind alley back of a resort known as Polk Street Mary's place. Marching Men We slipped down the blind alley and came out in the street leading to the East Gate. The Yeoman Adventurer Wilson," he said, "commonly called Snuffy Davy, from his inveterate addiction to black rappee, was the very prince of scouts for searching blind alleys, cellars, and stalls for rare volumes. The Antiquary — Volume 01 His eye falls on a blind alley, running back from the main street, backed at the upper end by a high wall of rock. Two Years Ago, Volume II. It is a place of considerable size, and is in an unhealthy, muddy, and irregular blind alley. Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period She had come to a blind alley and perplexity was in her face, though she tried to put the question nonchalantly. Over the Pass The lane which ran into the main road was a blind alley. The Broken Road Davy Wilson," he said, "commonly called Snuffy Davy, from his inveterate addiction to black rappee, was the very prince of scouts for searching blind alleys, cellars, and stalls, for rare volumes. Game and Playe of the Chesse A Verbatim Reprint of the First Edition, 1474 To prevent the putting of boys in large numbers into "blind alley" occupations, you must supplement the foresight of parents with Juvenile Employment Exchanges and After-Care Committees. Supply and Demand You can get through the end of Barrel Alley if you climb over old man Norris back fence, so it isn't exactly a blind alley. Roy Blakeley The regiment, which had probably come from the Popincourt barracks close at hand, had occupied the street opposite the blind alley for more than half an hour, and then had returned to the barracks. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness "There is no one," he said, and Shere Ali passed out to the mouth of the blind alley and turned to the left towards the Maidan. The Broken Road Ahead loomed something gray, a wall, the end of a blind alley. Dragon's blood We have all our antinomies, our blind alleys, our crudities; and we have all to fill up awkward interstices with assumptions and postulates. The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) If we of this generation can only recognize that the evil exists, then the situation is not past remedy; for man has never yet found himself in a blind alley of negation. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution Citizen Representatives," called out Cournet, "I have placed scouts in the blind alley who will fall back and warn us if the regiment penetrates thither. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness Instead of being, as he had fancied, in the High Street, he must have branched off into some miserable blind alley. The Head of Kay's Why did you assume that that was the only true one, which would set you on the straight road to Virtue, while the rest all opened on blind alleys? Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 All that long, dark morning, well into the afternoon, he followed blind alleys of thought, ending always in the same impasse—there was nothing he could do. The Iron Woman "You speak of blind alleys, but you insist." This Freedom It was necessary to show the masses by action that the fusionists had led the Revolution into a blind alley. From October to Brest-Litovsk He says about Art that it is decrepit, that it has got into a blind alley, that it is not what it ought to be, and so on, and so on. Letters of Anton Chekhov Veritable ghettoes they seemed, these blind alleys of gigantic habitations, branching out from the High Street, hidden away from the superficial passer-by faring to Holyrood. Without Prejudice But it's a blind alley and doesn't lead to any thing. Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Look out they don't lead you into a blind alley. The Flying Saucers are Real They turned to the left, and found themselves in a sort of blind alley, a dark, gloomy spot where not a ray of light penetrated. The Fat and the Thin "You led us up a blind alley this time, Bill." Smoke Bellew Sometimes a double row of houses had already been knocked away, revealing a Close within a Close, eyeless house behind blind alley, and even so the diameter of the court still but a few yards. Without Prejudice But it's the lower elements and the revolutionists who are making most of the trouble, and I'm a lot mistaken if their headquarters aren't in the neighborhood of that blind alley. Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs An intuitive Philosophy so- called finds itself sooner or later, generally sooner, in a blind alley. Bergson and His Philosophy On arriving at Nanterre, the cart turned to the left into a narrow lane, skirted some blank walls, and finally came to a standstill at the end of a sort of blind alley. The Fat and the Thin Of course we shall never know what narrow escapes our race had from extinction in the remote past; some forms have ended in a blind alley, like the sea-urchin and the oyster. Time and Change The alley was what is termed a "blind alley." Jim Cummings Or, The Great Adams Express Robbery But there are no such things as political blind alleys to a man who is a judge of indiscretion, provided he has certain other unusual gifts as well. Guns of the Gods It was the same blind alley in which my thoughts had strayed upon the train on our way out. The Film Mystery She had entered a blind alley on the left when she ran against two men, who unexpectedly emerged from one of those underground wine-shops which are numerous in that neighbourhood. Sant' Ilario They never went beyond the end of that narrow blind alley, but invariably retraced their steps. The Fortune of the Rougons There are three ways out from the blind alley to which the MinMaj Rule inevitably and invariably leads its adherents. After the Rain : how the West lost the East The four alarming objects get under way, cloud-shape, in the trench that unwinds itself sinuously before them like a blind alley, unsafe, unlighted, and unpaved. Under Fire: the story of a squad A wise old man, when he finds himself in a blind alley, no sooner touches the terminal wall than he faces about and goes back the way he came. Alice of Old Vincennes Her ignorance, too, of a thousand things, a knowledge of which is the birthright of such women as Eleanor Faversham, causes conversational excursions to end in innumerable blind alleys. Simon the Jester Right or left, top or bottom, there was no road farther; we were at the end of a blind alley. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth Effort and work, ambition and success, alike led nowhere, were so many blind alleys: ambition ended in smoke; success was a fleeing phantom, which one sought in vain to grasp. Maurice Guest At my left there opened unostentatiously one of those short, dark, neglected blind alleys so common in the older part of Paris, with the houses meeting over it and forming an arched roof. The Firefly of France The window to the blind alley had bars in front of it, wide enough for an arm to fit through. Andrea Delfin In the blind alleys, all that remains of the former cells, Spiders weave a white-satin screen, behind which they lie in wait for the passing game. The Mason-Bees The rat starts running down the passages, and is constantly stopped by blind alleys, but at last, by persistent attempts, it gets out. The Analysis of Mind This was obviously a blind alley with no possible outlet. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The lightkeeper felt very much as if this particular road to the truth had ended suddenly in a blind alley. The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights "I've known many a short cut," said Martin, "to end in a blind alley." Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Another clue had led into a blind alley, leaving the mystery of the night's affairs as impenetrable as ever. The Bat At the corner of the square there is a narrow opening which leads into a sort of blind alley paved with grim flagstones. We Two, a novel The blind alley she had entered and reentered so many times and so futilely crumbled.... The Drums of Jeopardy And now, now—his thoughts would come to the end of a blind alley, and then he would start back, as it were, mentally, to the center of things, and begin all over again. The Financier, a novel But when Fisher began to advance along the stones toward the island, the man was cornered in a blind alley and could only back toward the temple. The Man Who Knew Too Much Dense blackness is here, instead of floods of gaslight; a dim oil-lamp here and there sheds its doubtful and smoky gleam, and many blind alleys are not lighted at all. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life "What, that miserable blind alley, do you mean at the other side of the square?" We Two, a novel "Fool yourself!" replied the Bully; "and what sort of a fool is the man who comes up a blind alley looking after a girl that will not kiss him when he bids her?" The Brick Moon and Other Stories The "place" was dignified by the name of a street, although in reality it was a blind alley, for a high wall closed one end of it. London's Underworld And he did not like it when the process of reasoning brought him into a blind alley. Anna Karenina Saillard's salary from the government had always been four thousand five hundred francs a year, and no more; his situation was a blind alley that led nowhere, and had tempted no one to supersede him. Bureaucracy I looked about me, seeking to understand this blithe simplicity in the midst of Paris, and saw that the street was a blind alley and but little frequented. The Magic Skin The two natural outcomes from this blind alley were closed by the portcullis and the heaps of rocks. Salammbo She carried a knack of laborious thoroughness into the blind alleys and inessentials of her subject. The New Machiavelli The danger of this appendage in the human body to-day is due to the fact that it is a blind alley leading off the alimentary canal, and has a very narrow opening. The Story of Evolution |
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