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Blinkard   Listen
noun
Blinkard  n.  
1.
One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. "Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns."
2.
That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears.





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"Blinkard" Quotes from Famous Books



... the sea-nymphs tan Whole shoals of Dutch served up as Caliban, And, as they over the new level ranged, For pickled herring pickled Heeren changed. Therefore necessity, that first made kings, Something like government among them brings; And as among the blind the blinkard reigns So rules among the drowned he that drains; Who best could know to pump on earth a leak, Him they their lord and Country's Father speak. To make a bank was a great plot of state, Invent a shovel and be a magistrate; Hence some small dykegrave, unperceived, invades The power, and grows, ...
— The Function Of The Poet And Other Essays • James Russell Lowell


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