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Word: barking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...scattered in little groups gentlemen and ladies, boys and girls, - of all ages, from fifteen to thirty, - married and single, engaged, and still to have that pleasure. Instead of sleds they are dragging up the hill "taboggins," which is the Indian sled, and which finds a mate in the bark canoe. They are made of thin pieces of cedar-wood, which have been planed perfectly smooth; these pieces are bent up at the front so as to form a sort of runner, but the boards themselves lie flat on the snow, being fastened together above, so that the bottom...

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

That shore to which my dream-made bark is bound...

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

...show us how to bark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVENTURES OF ASHER CRIMERSTICKS, FRESHMAN. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...either bark and growl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ADVENTURES OF ASHER CRIMERSTICKS, FRESHMAN. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...creaking bark is tossed about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THREE STAVES. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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