Word: big
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...injunction has been granted restraining the London Zoological Society from selling Barnum the big elephant...
...News of Feb. 28 says : "The fire this morning was a big attraction." Boys get accustomed to that kind of excitement as they grow older...
There has been a big break in the levee at Concordia, Ark., and a damaging overflow, with some loss of life...
Tombstone, Arizona, is growing so rapidly that they soon expect to be big enough to change its name to Sarcophagus. - [Post...
...famous opinion about the Atlantic, he explained it (we are told) as follows: "Oh, that unfortunate saying! It will become historic, I suppose," and the long curls shook, and the whole frame of the aesthete quivered, as he enjoyed a hearty laugh. "You know I wanted to see a big storm. I am very fond of the sea, and I have been at sea in very rough weather. I wanted to see the fury of an Atlantic gale." And to the question as to what reception he had met with from his audiences, he answered: "If you mean those scholars...