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Word: casts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...general use and frequent abuse of this excellent word render a word upon it very desirable. It is a term altogether too expressive to be cast aside; yet at the same time it will never do to permit it to be universally applied. A world full of scrubs would be a sorry world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCRUB. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

Weep for the shadow cast upon her face...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAILING-WALL AT JERUSALEM. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

...riders intermingled, all spurring to gain the nearest place to the hounds. The lead was taken by a lady, whose horse cleared the fences beautifully, and the last one we saw her over, an unusually high brush fence, was left without a visible touch, while the next rider was cast headlong from his saddle. He managed to remount, and the party kept on behind the hounds. Into the woods at the same breakneck pace they went, until they were finally out of sight, and we could only judge of their movements by the cries of the dogs and the notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOX-HUNT. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

...Amherst Student consists largely of Locals, Personals, Exchanges, Eclecta, Book Notices, and so forth, though there is an interesting letter from Heidelberg, and a very gushing article, called "A Plea for Nature," in which we learn that, "frantic worshippers of the pen, we cast ourselves before the ruthless car of knowledge, and the love of the natural, the beautiful, is crushed out of us forever." As Mrs. Partington says, "La, that's just what I told my daughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...That cast the chilling shadow on the vale beneath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALLEY OF THE VISP. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

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