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...HARVARD HERALD. Dan'l, after some hesitation, admitted him, saying that he did not wish to be disturbed, as he was just writing his regrets to the mayor, because of not being able to keep a dinner engagement. He said that "those Beacon-street gals were botherin' him so, comin' after his new photographs, that he had to keep his door locked...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW WITH DANIEL PRATT. | 2/1/1882 | See Source »

...Rosa was the larger boat, but, with all Mr. Carlin's boasted seamanship, she was not well managed. 'I 'm ruther afeerd ther's a storm comin',' muttered Captain Scuffles, with an anxious look; and he let loose the sheets a little. The vessel careened and shivered, and leapt forward over the waves. It was now past noon, and the captain opened the suspiciously large package, and passed it to me. I had eaten scarcely any breakfast, and, in spite of the absorbing excitement, the sight of food made me hungry. I acknowledged that he had been wiser than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DREAM AND A REALITY. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

...Upon the extreme right notice the ferocious charge of the abandoned and in every way profligate Mamelukes, - derived from two Greek works, mammy, mamy, and look, look, - so called because ven young and left by the mothers, who goes a verkin' for the day, ven they sees them a comin' home, they cries, "Mammy, look!" - mamy, look, - hence called Mammylukes. Likevise, in the centre the piles of dying; in the foreground the same; and on the left the Hegyptian general a tearing of his 'air and a cussin' in the 'Ebrew tongue, him not bein' allowed to cuss in Harabic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

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