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Word: barely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...city, a tomb, or a set of jewelry, he is morally certain to find it. He dug for Noah's ark in the Hill of Hissarlik, and he found it on the second day, not more than seventy feet below the surface. Later excavations have laid bare the entire ark, though, thanks to the great discoverer's precaution in putting a board fence around it and in compelling his workmen to dig with their eyes blindfolded, no one except Dr. Schliemann and his wife has yet seen the ark. Of the identity of the vessel discovered by Dr. Schliemann with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/10/1882 | See Source »

Sullivan, the prize-fighter, declines to meet Eagan with bare knuckles, and so virtually surrenders his title of "champion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/25/1882 | See Source »

Rubenstein wears a silk hat on Saturdays. Fact. - [Ex.] Are we to infer from this that the gentleman goes bare-headed the rest of the week...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/17/1882 | See Source »

They found and bare her home: and in whose arms

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...little valley, carpeted with green turf, and almost bare of trees. At the bottom of the vale, a chattering brook ripple over smooth stones, and hurried on to join the sea. Just above him the course of the brook turned from east to south-east; and where the valley curved, on the north bank, a pretty moss-covered grotto opened toward the sun. Behind this a cliff suddenly rose a score of feet; while before it a large flat stone formed a convenient floor, reaching from the cave quite to the edge of the brook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

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