Word: blackest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...county fair, no one takes the course until after a dozen false starts. This is the time, as the college almanac says, to get in your early Bowdoin dissertations. Take a quire of the best letter-paper, and rule off a wide inch of the margin. Write with the blackest of ink very plainly, and give special attention to punctuation. A piece without other points is often saved by punctuation...
...table of contents of the Niagara Index, from which the above is taken, we notice the following subjects: "Napoleon Bonaparte," "Gerald Griffin," "Edmund Burke," "Relics and Souvenirs of St. Vincent de Paul," "The Pearl that under Blackest Wave," "Waning Stars and Withering Flowers...
...little souls with perfect bliss, and is himself expecting every moment an increase in his worldly goods. Is not this true happiness, to be doing good to others and to be getting good from them in return? One cannot imagine an organ-grinder to be a scamp. Take the blackest scoundrel and let him go out into the country and grind a barrel-organ for ten days, and at the end of that time, what with the circle of delighted faces constantly around him and the humanizing effect of so much music, he will have recovered all the innocence that...
...price of shame in all its blackest dyes...
...Blackest of seas at the base and whitest of spray at the dome...