Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mother-tongue which, according to the most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics. The biggest stones that I could hurl upon the ice of her demeanor did not crack it. With the crowbar of my brain, I rolled down huge scientific boulders, but with no effect whatever. I tried thawing; my fire was built of the arts, kindled with compliments, and the heat was raised with a strong...
...thought I, "what shall it be? the Nation would look well, but that's dull; Goethe is all the rage, but Dante - ah! it shall be Dante. Bring me the biggest translation of Dante in the Library; my eyes are weak...