Straps here and straps there, a bit in my mouth, and blinkers over my eyes.
He could not bear to be guided by his driver, and was always squinting over his blinkers in the most ridiculous manner.
In the shafts stood poor shaggy old Jack, looking over his blinkersas much as to say, "What do you want me to do now?
Jim hadn't the dirt, although he had brought his threepence; so his blinkers are left there in limbo.
St. Amant," said I, and began to explain why Hayhoe had put blinkers on him.
Now, whether the blinkers have done it or not, that St. Amant is firm as a rock.
In the paddock he nodded at a horse in blinkers and said, "What's the matter with that fellow?
Of late years there has sprung up a fancy that blinkers are not only unnecessary, but absolutely an evil, and a good deal of newspaper correspondence has been the result, without going very far towards elucidating the subject.
Promptly the signal flashed out from the blinkersof the "Grigsby.
There was more talking with the blinkers between the two craft.
Then Dave saw the blinkers at the foremast head gleam out dully.
The blinkers have the advantage of preventing a horse from being disquieted by external objects, and are perhaps partly the cause of his not fearing anything.
If you utter another peep during this game, I'll button up both your blinkers so tight it'll take a doctor to pry 'em open.
You just shut your blinkers and ducked, and Pitkins' inshoot carromed off the bat over into right field and got lost in the grass.
You can't frighten me with your savage looks, and I've got my bub-blinkers on you so you can't catch me off my guard and hit me.
A black pony with blinkers had singled out old Benami, and was interfering with him in every possible way.
It is conceivable that what happens with the mystics is that their mental blinkers become slightly shifted, and they are thus able to respond to another aspect or order of reality.
It limits the field of vision, it cuts in one direction only, it puts blinkers on the mind, forcing it to concentrate on a limited range of facts.
Old Chipstone, with glasses to shelter his eyesight; likeblinkers on a horse.
