Offenders against the revenue laws, and defaulters to excise or customs who had incurred fines which they were unable to pay, were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two, and a blind alley some yard and a half wide, which formed the mysterious termination of the very limited skittle-ground in which the Marshalsea debtors bowled down their troubles.
Supposed to be incarcerated there, because the time had rather outgrown the strong cells and the blind alley. In practice they had come to be considered a little too bad, though in theory they were quite as good as ever; which may be observed to be the case at the present day with other cells that are not at all strong, and with other blind alleys that are stone-blind.
"Her father shall pay me for it doubly: with his purse and with his life." With that thought in his heart, Richard Turlington wound his way through the streets by the river-side, and stopped at a
blind alley called Green Anchor Lane, infamous to this day as the chosen resort of the most abandoned wretches whom London can produce.
And he did not like it when the process of reasoning brought him into a
blind alley. That was the only thing he disliked, and avoided by changing the conversation to something agreeable and amusing.
It stopped one end of the glen or hollow like a
blind alley; and it looked like the end of the world.
We interviewed also through a grating in a mud wall closing a
blind alley an immensely corpulent Ital ian, who, the ex-sergeant-major remarked to me perfunctorily, had "killed another man last year." Thereupon he addressed him as "Antonio" and "Old Buck," though that bloated carcase, appar ently more than half filling the sort of cell where in it sat, recalled rather a fat pig in a stye.
I could have told him from the beginning that this obsession of his over the coffee was bound to end in a
blind alley, but I restrained my tongue.
Saillard's salary from the government had always been four thousand five hundred francs a year, and no more; his situation was a
blind alley that led nowhere, and had tempted no one to supersede him.
The rat starts running down the passages, and is constantly stopped by
blind alleys, but at last, by persistent attempts, it gets out.
He said that the government had pushed the country's politics into a
blind alley which showed its failure.
TAXILA -- Former interior minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Saturday said the PTI government was heading towards a
blind alley due to its poor policies and lack of direction.
Political leaders who play with your lives and just lead you from one
blind alley to another.