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Word: arter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sent to the faculty in 1902 by Miss Winnie Verdantique. It is written - the petition, not Miss Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "STANDS IT NOT WITHIN THE PROSPECT OF BELIEF?" | 5/18/1882 | See Source »

...Yaas," continued Captain Batt slowly. "He never knew nuthin' about it till few days arter. An' then - 'Why, confound the feller, he's gumm'd me out o' my money ter no puppos,' was all ole Jake said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POSETT EPISODE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...Thet 's shipshape enough, I must say,' remarked the captain confidentially; 'but blamed ef I like the man's looks. I wish I hed n't let him hev her, arter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DREAM AND A REALITY. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

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