Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...could n't ram his ball clear down, but then he wa' n't to blame...
...about $52 yearly for each seat. As the first cost of the boats can scarcely have exceeded this, -and it is reported that the receipts have exceeded the expenses this year, -all the receipts next year, after deducting care of boats, repairs, interest on mortgage, etc., will be clear profit...
Deep drops of blood on the armor clear...
...modern trousers. When the artist of the days of the Antonines desired to represent a wretched being, born and bred without the pale of a civilized existence, he accomplished his end, at once with ease and with certainty, by his treatment of the legs of his subject, - a clear proof that, although not regularly recognized, knemidology has just claims to a very respectable antiquity...
...February for Alexandria, in the steamer Teheran, which plied between Venice and Bombay, touching at this point for the India mail from London. The first day out was rough, so that few passengers appeared, and our company at the dinner-table was small; but towards evening it began to clear off, and people who had kept their state-rooms all day began to show themselves on deck. A trip on an Indian steamer is almost an education in itself; one sees on board representatives of every race and almost of every country. The crew were Indians shipped at Bombay; they...