- 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
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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,
Blend
- 18.019 blended in measure.
Bleak
- 11.004 The land about them grew bleak
Bifur
A note on the naming of dwarves.
- 01.049 Let me introduce Bifur, Bofur, Bombur,
- 01.050 said Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur standing
- 01.050 with Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur on top of him.
- 01.053 and apple-tart,’ said Bifur.
- 01.070 Bifur and Bofur went out too,
- 02.075 and Bifur and Bofur and Bombur piled uncomfortably near the fire.
- 02.076 for Bifur and Bombur had given a lot of trouble,
- 06.052 Bifur, Bofur, Bombur,
- 07.086 There were Bifur
- 07.087 In came Bifur
- 08.024 Bifur and Bofur;
- 08.073 Bombur, Bifur, Bofur,
- 08.108 Bifur, Bofur, Dori and Nori.
- 08.114 who was being propped up on either side by his cousin Bifur,
- 10.013 Bifur and Bofur were less knocked about
- 11.025 And winter comes after autumn,’ said Bifur.
- 12.024 inside the tunnel when Bifur gave a cry:
- 18.033 and Bifur and Bofur and Bombur –
- 18.038 Oin, Gloin, Bifur, Bofur, and Bombur!
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