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Bluebeard
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Definition:a French folktale about a man who keeps a room full of his murdered wives
painting: by Gustave Dore (1862) https://www.wikiart.org/en/gustave-dore/bluebeard-1862
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looking, with its two rows of small black doors all shut, like a corridor in some Bluebeard’s castle.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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she was never admitted into his study (if I may give that name to his chief depository of parchments, law writings, &c.); that room was to her the Bluebeard room of the house, being regularly locked on his departure to dinner, about six o’clock, which usually was his final departure for the night.
Thomas De Quincey. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821)
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Gently, on tip-toe, she crossed the landing and, like Blue Beard's wife, trembling half with excitement and wonder, she paused a moment on the threshold, strangely perturbed and irresolute.
Emma Orczy. The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905)
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'No, no! please!' cried Dora, with a kiss, 'don't be a naughty Blue Beard! Don't be serious!'
Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)
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He was eleven and very smart, that I granted, but after all he was so small. The Bluebeards and tigers and Rippers could eat him up before he could scream for help.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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The boy, curly-headed like his mother and glowing with health, sat on his knee, and Prince Andrew began telling him the story of Bluebeard, but fell into a reverie without finishing the story.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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