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Word: characterizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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This was enough. After having provided an armament for the contemplated slaughter of game, and ammunition enough to storm a fort, our party arrives, on a superb moonlit evening, at the neat and homelike Samoset. Mine host is something of a character, being a combination of the old sea-captain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TRIP TO PLYMOUTH. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

AMONG recent publications, we feel called upon to notice "An Essay on Human Understanding," by a certain Locke, of England. The book is evidently to be taken as an extravaganza or philosophical romance, and is designed, by a pleasing species of reductio ad absurdum, to ridicule the philosophers who were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK REVIEW. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

M. LECOCQ, the composer of La Fille de Madame Angot, is engaged on a new operetta entitled Frederick the Great. The scene is laid in Holland, and the flute-playing monarch is the leading character.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

WE have received the Brunonian in its new form, and a very bright and well-appearing paper it is. It adheres to the plan of printing a longer and more pretentious story than is usual in college papers; but if the attempt is always as successful as in the present...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

"In spite of the familiar picture of the moral dangers which environ the student, there is no place so safe as a good college during the critical passage from boyhood to manhood. The security of the college commonwealth is largely due to its exuberant activity. Its public opinion, though easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FIVE YEARS. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

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