...didn't know what you meant ; youfancied I did not know which was the purse, and which was the ear ; but a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse." Why, there's another proverb, as utterly incapable of disproof as the other ; a most staring, glaring, unquestionable...

...years, and that the post-master of the great stables is vacant ; for I may as well have it as another, and a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse." With a look of profound alarm, the culinary stagemanager declared that such a departure from histrionic...

...years, and that the post-master of the great stables is vacant ; for I may ;u well have it as another, and a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse." manager declared that such a departure from histrionic precedent would intUl liiily bring them all...

...marriage-dinners, and all the divarsions the poor creatures have. Spoil the Egyptians,' says he, to his flock, and ' a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse.' Then, sir, he hasn't got his own clergy to back him, for the English Protestants aren't so strict as...

...didn't know what you meant ; youfancied I did not know which was the purse, and which was the ear ; but a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse." Why, there's another proverb, as utterly incapable of disproof as the other ; a most staring, glaring, unquestionable...

...likes of him. But Sylvie has plenty of acquaintances among the gentry — she said as much herself — and a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse ' Mrs. Williams gradually stopped her harangue, conjuring up a golden future, in which Susie was married...

...this present time, and never may be." "That just your way of putting the matter, my girl," I said. " And a nod's as good as a wink to a blind horse; you've given me leave to think of you when I count over my wages, and I shall make so bold as to get...