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Word: crust (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Parade the grounds with yellow, pie-crust suits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE EDITOR'S DRAWER. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...assistance is not a success reminds me of other things about which the same thing might be said. The trouble, as I see it, is that the underlying principle is wrong. The aid is given as a means, and is not made an end; it is bestowed as a crust is flung to a beggar, and implies an obligation for the favor received. The bestowal of money to help men along will undoubtedly always imply a certain amount of obligation, but that obligation should be only a tacit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REMEDY. | 1/26/1877 | See Source »

Beneath the words as, 'neath its cooled crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAST LETTER. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...sparingly endowed with calorific properties, and plentifully supplied, in unknown and unvisited regions, with cold milk (perchance once boiled) and, I should say, with copper-filings, and maybe a pinch or two of snuff besides. At the Thayer Club we had every day good rolls with a crisp crust; at Memorial, until recently, we have had soggy, solid rolls; and as for those now furnished, although some of them display a tendency to crispness on the under surface, the majority are unambitious of any such refinement. The brown bread at Memorial is never superior and often inferior to that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL HALL AND THE THAYER CLUB. | 3/12/1875 | See Source »

That the coffee is cold and the rolls wholly crust...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRAGMENTS: | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

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