- 08.026 and lightest boatload.
10K
Blush
- 01.068 and then he blushed to think
Blunt
I am reminded in 01.117 of “swords into ploughshares”.
[01.116] ‘That would be no good,’ said the wizard, ‘not without a mighty Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting one another in distant lands, and in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found. Swords in these parts are mostly blunt, and axes are used for trees, and shields as cradles or dish-covers; and dragons are comfortably far-off (and therefore legendary). That is why I settled on burglary –
- 01.064 Blunt the knives and bend the forks!
- 01.117 in these parts are mostly blunt,
Blunder
- 01.004 and me come blundering along,
- 08.059 After blundering frantically
- 08.074 and quite useless to go blundering about tiring himself out
- 09.030 At last after much blundering
Blot
- 14.002 blotted in the dark.
Blossom
- 15.033 blossoming in spring.
- 19.011 The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower,
- 19.043 with birds and blossoms in spring
Blood-curdling
Hyphenated in OED just as you see it here.
- 05.130 All at once there came a blood-curdling shriek,
“blood, n. (and int.).” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Blindfold
- 09.003 Each dwarf was blindfold,
Blind-man’s-buff
OED gives the first mention of this game in 1600:
1600 S. Rowlands Letting of Humors Blood iv. 64 At hot-cockles, leape-frogge, or blindman-buffe.
Now I want to know how to play hot-cockles!
- 05.145 Then it was like a horrible game of blind-man’s-buff.
“blind-man’s-buff, n.” OED Online. Oxford University Press, June 2017. Web. 5 September 2017.
Blind
- 02.044 and blimey,
- 02.051 “Blimey, Bert,
words that you were saying 