Word: air
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Perfuming the air...
...dish-towel held in the air...
SCENE, Ithaca, Parlor. - Charming Sub-Fresh to enamored Soph. "Now do sing 'Lagerbeer Horatius' once more, won't you?" Soph. grinds out the noble air of "Lauriger" with ill-concealed disgust...
Soon quakes the air 'neath hooves of spectral steeds...
...have purposely reserved for our last word of praise that most curiously interesting "Vassar Manual."* It is not a new work, but has been recently discovered and reprinted, and around its contents cling the air and spirit of a bygone age. Its real date must be far earlier than that assigned by the title-page, though this may very well be the true date of a modern reprint. That this curious collection of brief essays, sonnets, epigrams, and oracular injunctions was intended for a most limited circulation, we infer from the direction on the cover of our copy...