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...slang : "Cork," - flunk; "Tip a curl" - make a dead rush; "Take a calico ticket," - devote too much attention to snab; "On Dike," - quite the dear George...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

that dampen the curl on your brow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUX CHEVEUX DE MA MAITRESSE. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

Where hideous waves creep up and round it curl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAELSTROM. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...Young Ladies of C - Street.O teeth of pearl, 'twixt lips that curl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...while the flowing bowl - especially if it contain water for purposes of ablution - is spurned with magnificent consistency. The contents of his fingernails would give interesting and engrossing employment for a couple of days to the average chemist. His hair, if it chance to be curly, is allowed to curl unchecked over his manly brow; if nature has made it straight, it wanders forlornly about in every direction until some compassionate barber, who is moderate in his charges, mows it down with unsparing shear. From these indications his general appearance may be imagined...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCRUB. | 2/12/1875 | See Source »

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