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Word: clearest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...night, and who therefore consider the extra morning hour very valuable for sleep. But I think these men are exceptional, and that the great majority of men would find this morning hour much more valuable for study. The morning is the time when the brain is naturally freshest and clearest, and it is a time also when there are none of the distractions of athletics or entertainment which accompany the afternoon and evening hours. Again, considered from the sluggard's standpoint, the change is not a serious one. Seven o'clock in summer is not as early as eight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/6/1877 | See Source »

What - spoken not in clearest tones...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MISUNDERSTANDING. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

...hair makes us the more sensible of the comfort of warmth and repose. The cool, fresh, fragrant breaths of a summer morning drifting through the open window are most delightfully mingled with our dreams. Vainly will others extol to us the virtues of great draughts of the freshest, clearest hours of the day; these we, too, taste and delicately enjoy with a relish that the votaries of, even anticipating the monarch and definer of the day, cannot appreciate or imagine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PLEASURES OF SLEEP. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

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