Word: bags
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tariffs were levied on a sliding scale, i. e., the captain of a vessel was obliged to walk the plank. Charles V. was an inventive genius; he invented the slave trade and protective tariff. Protectionists want such a tariff that a man can get over the fence with a bag of wheat but can bring nothing back. England was the first to take up and (be it said to her honor) the first to abandon protective tariff. The people of England are, consequently, free under a monarchy; we are slaves under a republic. The enormities of the present tariff...
...hunter in Africa hides himself by some favorite pool, and is sure to have at certain hours of the day a variety of animals to choose from for his game-bag...
...where shall we begin! What shall we hold up as a prize from the literary game-bag as first worthy of notice! Let general peculiarities be given the first place...
With a 'broidered bag and a bamboo cane...
...cried, crowding himself into his ulster, and seizing his carpet-bag. "I - I cannot stop - am very sorry, but my wife - come some time next year - my wife has the smallpox...