Word: angele
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fluffy hair," a "slight, graceful figure," and we don't care to know if the eyes are large and lustrous, and the complexion like alabaster. In fact, we should prefer to see a few freckles, if only to show that she is but "an earthly paragon," and no angel. If the scene is to be laid on this earth, then even the heroine ought to be endowed with a few of our imperfections, for through them her character appeals most strongly to the reader. If he has not her good qualities, he at least wants to sympathize with her shortcomings...
LAST June we entertained an angel unawares. He came from the "University of Wisconsin," and he writes about us to the University Press as follows: "I was struck, as every visitor must be, with the solid intellectual calibre of the professors, but I suppose the summer sunshine and the approaching close of the year's work was having its inevitable effect on the students; certain it is, the recitations were nothing to boast of, and were, in my opinion, much below the average recitations of the Wisconsin University." He proceeds to take the readers of the Press and introduce them...
...angel's fire...
...Angel footsteps at my side...
...angel guest was human...