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Word: cumming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Virginia University Magazine has an article entitled "A Vade-M cum for Lovers" which is quite cleverly done. The author particularly recommends indirect and delicate flattery, and cites the following (!) as an example...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

...adhibentes remedia, sed discipuli Aesculapii veri - Germani, viri optimi, probi atque honesti, artis peritissimi medicinae, quorum alterum Doctorem A., alterum Doctorem B., nominabimus. Licet ambo sint scurrae, tamen Doctor A. Doctori B. praestat. Infeliciter alter alteri invidet, neque alter occasionem alterius petulantibus vocibus consectandi praetermittit. Jam paucis diebus ante cum convivis aliis hospites amici fuerunt. Ridetur, editur, potatur, ut omnes non minus animo quam ventre delectentur. Sermonis cursu a Doctore B. rogatus, ut fabellam narraret, "Fabella digna, quam narrem," Doctor A. respondet, "mihi non est; mihi autem somnium proxima nocte mirum fuit, quod, amici mei, si vobis placcat, libenter narrabo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...Harvardinus, cum amici fessum et somno gravem in lectulum posuissent, et luminibus remotis abiissent, se e stragulis repente projiciens, impositis altera in capite altera in ventri manibus, dolorose exclamat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRILOGIA HARVARDINI. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

...Cum solerem esse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRILOGIA HARVARDINI. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

Postea dico satis sed cum potavero gratis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

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