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Word: cars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Car tickets; cigarettes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCOUNTS; AS THEY ARE AND AS THEY GO HOME. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

They boarded many a car...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...YOUNG lady, on entering a crowded horse-car, observed the sign, "Beware of Pickpockets!" She made her way to the middle of the car, and stopped beside a tall, fine-looking Harvard student, whose head towered up so high that it was unnoticed by the maiden. Her thoughts, indeed, were running upon pickpockets; and the probability that even she might be robbed of her small sum and the locket that contained the picture of her lover led her to thrust her hand hastily into her pocket to secure her purse. Horror! she finds a hand already there. Surely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A PICKPOCKET. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

Investigation showed that, owing to the crowded car and her proximity to the tall student, she had in fact put her hand into the wrong pocket. The student was not arrested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENCOUNTER WITH A PICKPOCKET. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

Freshman (in the distance). - Gad, Jack, we must run for it, there goes our car. (Fact...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNODKINS'S VISION. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

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