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Word: boils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cowles and Hartridge, who are not in the boat this year, were by far the most powerful men in it last year. Their loss has not been made good. Again, sickness has interfered with the crew's work since April, and even now Middlebrook is just getting over a boil. The men are rowing exactly the same stroke that Bob Cook taught them last year. Caldwell made that a condition of his stroking the crew again this year, and it was agreed to. But the men have not caught the stroke as well by any means as they did last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/23/1887 | See Source »

...those buying $20 worth." The sign was placed there early in the morning but by chapel time it had mysteriously disappeared. This morning, however, it was hoisted higher up in the tree and at noon it still hung there, causing the wrath of the Bones men to boil within them, while everybody else laughed immoderately at the joke. - [Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1883 | See Source »

...poems bubble and boil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COPYRIGHT CONGRESS. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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