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Word: cela (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...This matter of a college education," said she, "is getting to be overdone. Your grandfather graduated at Harvard when he was nineteen; your father was twenty-one; you will be twenty three or four; and so it goes on. At this rate your grandchildren, if you have any," - "Cela depend," I murmured gently, but she did not hear it, - "will be thirty-five before they are ready to enter any profession, and all the while their chances of success will be growing poorer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY AUNTS VIEWS. | 12/20/1877 | See Source »

...respectable contemporary, the Boston Advertiser, condemns a French sentence in the Danbury News, and says, Qu'est que cela, Mons. Danbury Newsman? It is with reason that the Advertiser dislikes the practice of using French so common among fashion reporters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/9/1875 | See Source »

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