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Word: brutish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just after this that Blazes again displayed his brutish instincts by assaulting our man, Scamp, who, in some way, had got behind Harvard's goal posts and was waiting there for Fill-full to kick the ball to him, so that he could get a touch-down, - a very pretty little play which our fellows constantly employ with great effect, - but the minute Blazes discovered him, he rushed at him, grabbed him by the head, almost breaking the poor fellow's neck, and threw him back on side as if he had been a dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTER | 11/26/1880 | See Source »

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