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blind and panic
This was important because Pan, in addition to his other powers, had the capacity to instill the most extreme sort of fear, an irrational, blind fear that paralysed the mind and suspended all sense of judgment – panic.
In a blind panic, Strucker ran through and into a chamber where nuclear processes were taking place, and was immediately incinerated.
Seeing his worst fears unfolding, Mr. Bartholomew hurries to exit the arena in blind panic, with the realization that Jonathan has essentially defeated the purpose of the game itself.
The investigation is made even more difficult by the blind panic of police and security guards ( including a humorous anecdote about a student who passed out in the parking lot, only to be taken to the morgue by the security guard who found him ) and the feelings of suspicions among students.
Night Goblins are a cowardly lot, and are thus prone to running off in blind panic if things don't go their way.

blind and grief
Li Kui is overwhelmed with grief and he charges into the tigers ' lair and slays all four tigers in blind rage.

blind and she
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
When she would do these things, he would turn blind for an instant and become sick at his stomach.
The way she strutted down the street, the Old Man would have been blind not to have noticed both.
The prophet, though blind with old age, knew the wife of Jeroboam as soon as she approached, and under a divine impulse he announced to her that inasmuch as in Abijah alone of all the house of Jeroboam there was found " some good thing toward the Lord ," he only would come to his grave in peace.
One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.
* Sally Hobart Alexander became blind when she was about 25 and a schoolteacher, during the 1970s, because of an eye disease.
On Harold ’ s third blind date, she mimics his suicide, giving a histrionic rendition of Juliet's death scene.
Helen Keller was not born blind and deaf ; it was not until she was 19 months old that she contracted an illness described by doctors as " an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain ", which might have been scarlet fever or meningitis.
Lin believes that if the competition had not been " blind ", with designs submitted by number instead of name, she " never would have won ".
Contrary to later biographers ' claims, she was never entirely blind, but perhaps suffered from cataracts.
Ironically, Gearreald was blind and could not see the clock ; she had no idea only a few moments were left in the game.
Davis appeared in the television film As Summers Die ( 1986 ) and Lindsay Anderson's film The Whales of August ( 1987 ), in which she played the blind sister of Lillian Gish.
We see everything through Hammer's eyes, and for a long time he is completely blind to the facts (" I hope you get him ,' she said sincerely .").
Alice is due the big blind but she only has $ 8.
She must pay the $ 1 ante and apply the remaining $ 7 towards the big blind, and she is all in.
On her way to a blind date she gets into a car accident, and is left in a coma.
Skull fired Crossbones, and went into hiding while the Viper, using funds she plied from Red Skull as part of a scheme to use televisions across America to blind TV viewers, was defeated by Captain America.
Cox was a unique person to run for that office, not only because she is a woman, but also because she is legally blind.
On June 1, 1968, the deaf and blind activist Helen Keller died at the age of 87 in her Easton home, where she chose to spend her final days.

blind and accepted
As a counter to any form of " blind faith ", the Buddha's teachings included those included in the Kalama Sutra, exhorting his disciples to investigate any teaching and to live by what is learnt and accepted, rather than believing in something simply because it is taught.
While the white cane is commonly accepted as a " symbol of blindness ", different countries still have different rules concerning what constitutes a " cane for the blind ".
Newman enrolled in the Navy V-12 program at Ohio University, hoping to be accepted for pilot training, but was dropped when it was discovered he was color blind.
He became blind some time before his death, but when important issues were under discussion he was carried to the assembly to give his opinion, which was usually accepted.
Simon's part in the crusade had the full backing of his liege lord, the King of France, Philip Augustus, although historian Alistaire Horne, in his book Seven Ages of Paris states that Philippe ( sic ) " turned a blind eye to Simon de Montfort's brutal crusade ... of which he disapproved, but readily accepted the spoils to his exchequer "( 36 ).
Although ill and going blind, Lee in 1790 accepted the post of James City County sheriff in Virginia, serving two years.
Somewhere along the way he also learned to speak French, and was actually accepted at age 16 to a Paris-based school for the blind, but he contracted typhoid fever and was unable to travel.
There are three accepted methods of threading blind holes:
Tim Cordes is a blind American physician who earned an Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2005, and is the second blind person ever to be accepted to an American school of medicine.
One of his cherished subjects was to reform geography by putting an end to the blind copying of older maps, by testing the commonly accepted positions of places through a rigorous examination of all the descriptive authority, and by excluding from cartography every name inadequately supported.
Narmadha's father says that he would not have accepted Vasanth if he had been blind, and Vasanth and his friend realise that they cannot know that Vasanth is blind.

blind and believed
Their ideas included the creation of a truly Islamic society under sharia law, and the rejection of taqlid, the blind imitation of earlier authorities, which they believed deviated from the true messages of Islam.
A famous example of a vestigial structure, the eye of the blind mole rat, is believed to retain function in photoperiod perception.
His aged and blind father, King Wermund believed him to be a simpleton and in order to preserve his son's position as king had him marry the daughter of Freawine ( a neighbouring warlord / king ) so that Freawine would assist Uffi when he became king.
Two of the more unusual endemic cichlids are the whitish ( non-pigmented ) and blind Lamprologus lethops, which is believed to live as deep as below the surface, and Heterochromis multidens, which appears to be more closely related to cichlids of the Americas than other African cichlid.
After an incident where Father Porras purportedly restored the sight of a blind youth by placing a cross over his eyes, the Hopi at Awatovi believed in Christianity.
He believed the study of this art would somehow give him an advantage in battle, since it provided him with information on the psyche of his opponents and informed him of their psychological blind spots.
Treves believed that Merrick's hope was to go to live at an institution for the blind, where he might meet a woman who could not see his deformities.
After a childhood fever, he suffered from very sensitive eyes, and believed that he would soon go blind.
Van Sant originally believed Clarke's title referred to the story of several blind men trying to describe an elephant and each one drawing different conclusions based on which body part they were touching.
* It is believed that one who assists a blind man for forty steps becomes worthy of entering heaven.
It had been believed that the last blind kobzar, ( Ostap Veresai ) had died in 1890, however upon investigation six blind traditional kobzars were found to be alive and performed on stage at the conference.
After a brutal night during which one pair is almost killed by a snake, another by a scorpion, another by a falling ceiling, a fourth by poison gas and the fifth by a bomb, they all collect in the office where the butler — believed to have been murdered earlier — is sitting behind the desk very much alive and not at all blind: " The butler did it ".
For half of season two, it is believed that Lionel is blind.
He is the first totally blind physicist in the United States, and is believed to be the first astronomer who was blind from birth ( although some astronomers have become blind in their old age, most notably Galileo Galilei ).
Victorians believed disabilities were inherited, and thus it was not socially acceptable for the blind to marry ( although they often did in reality ).
For example, in many tribal cultures a blind person or their parents were believed to be wicked, hence the gods or the spirits have blinded them.
He believed joblessness among the blind must be reduced through a robust program to assist blind people in the establishment and operation of cafeteria, concessions, and vending businesses on federal, state, municipal and potentially private property.
Vision is not believed to be significant in hunting, as blind animals have been observed to survive in the wild.
This saint is believed to help not only the blind but women who wish to have fertility and to bear children.
His gnarled physical appearance, being blind in one eye, combined with his propensity to use hyperbolic language, made Haywood more likely to be associated with conspiracy and murder in the minds of the jurors, the prosecution believed.

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