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Word: culling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...print the decalogue in gaudy colors on pocket-handkerchiefs and express them to the South Sea Islanders, utterly oblivious to the fact that the islanders aforesaid were unprovided with spring suits, and, consequently, with upper left outside breast-pockets. It is not in cruelty, not in wrath, that I cull from Mr. Dwight's cerebral convolutions a few of the flowerets that grow between; they shall be transplanted to bloom in a superior flower-pot above, - it is needless to say that I refer to the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSCULAR DOUBTS. | 5/5/1876 | See Source »

What can be done towards restoring method and completeness to art, towards making our murders more worthy of a civilized and cultivated people? To this question I answer, first, and most important, we can cull from the experience of the past a few simple, but universally necessary principles to guide the murderer in the formation and execution of his design. Such I consider the following to be: The death must be inflicted cleanly; unnecessary cruelty must be avoided; the artist must escape undetected after he has given the last touch to his work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROTEST. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

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