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Word: arm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fall of the Year," the "Falls of Niagara," and other kindred subjects; and ultimately you meet him in a small cabinet from which the staircase descends to an oubliette. You receive him with civility and extend your hand. He extends his hand in return. You seize him by the arm, twitch him suddenly around to the head of the staircase, apply the hobnailed shoe to his person, and send him flying down stairs into the oubliette. Then, after the noise of his fall is over, you rearrange your dress, ring for the butler, order a bottle of your best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

Love me with thy heart and arm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A WOMAN'S REQUIREMENTS. | 5/19/1876 | See Source »

...strain. And here all the fun comes in, since the danger is necessarily very great. Often a load will upset, and girls and boys will be flung together into a huge drift; then of course the screaming and laughing is immense, except when one has a leg or arm broken, and then the laugh is more likely to appear on the other side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TABOGGINNING. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

Lean on our arm when we walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE TO GIRLS. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...Chest. Infl'd. Arm. Up. F. arm. W'ght. Height...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOATING. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

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