Word: carpets
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dictionary of English History, Fiske's American Political Ideas, Well's About People, Probyn's Italy, Flemming's Carpet Knight, Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayenis' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Stateman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Hovey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Open Door, John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
Dictionary of English History, Fiske's American Political Ideas, Well's About People, Probyn's Italy. Flemming's Carpet Knight, Gosse's Gray, Goethe's Works, Representative German Poems, Bascom's Ethics, or Science of Duty, Oliver's Dean Stanley, Timayeius' Greece in the Time of Homer, The Statesman's Year-Book, Porter's Elements of Modern Science, Warren's Paradise Found, Arnold's Secret of Death, Horey's Mind Reading, Leonowen's Life and Travel in India, The Ofun Daor, John Marshall, Wilson's Congressional Government, Taussig's Present Tariff, George's Progress and Poverty...
...which I have had the most familiar acquaintance from my very earliest recollection. It is a sofa, in the correct acceptance of the term. It is not a "lounge." Its framework is of some dark wood, well begrimed with cigarette smoke and ashes. Its cushion is covered with velvet carpet of an ancient pattern, the figures of which, where not worn off entirely, seem to be made up of a conglomeration of enormous roses and tree trunks. To look at this aged sofa, you would say that it could not possibly be comfortable to sit, to lie or to take...
...believe that believe that this was the original of all dreams. Since that dream, indeed, millions of sons of Adam have dreamed fancies that would create scores of Arabian Nights; have been the heroes nightly of thrilling adventures, which. were they written out, would cover the earth with a carpet of crocus-colored literature; have invented in dreamland enough mechanical appliances to increase the poverty of civilized lands to an extraordinary degree: have delivered in sleep more eloquently persuasive harangues than Demosthenes or Cicero ever imagined possible; in short, have done in dreams everything that man has done or that...
...Felton, for the rest of the year, with carpet and curtains. Apply to janitor, or at No. 3 Weld, between...