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Word: damsels (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Darkey's Dream" by the Banjo Club. In regard to the Glee Club we quote a few words from a Cincinnati paper: "If music, heavenly maid, was not pleased with the appearance of these thirty dress-coated young Adonises, she can be in no wise the seraphic damsel we have been led to suppose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The First Christmas Tour of the Glee and Banjo Clubs. | 1/3/1889 | See Source »

...GersdorffSignorita Seraphita (Nee Binks), a light-headed, light-footed damsel, who dances her way into all hearts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: H. P. C. Theatricals. | 4/14/1887 | See Source »

...little broken when one young man happened to be just on hand to see the lone damsel safely back from the remote dining room car. He was quite a hero among the others after that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men. | 1/27/1885 | See Source »

...very pleasant case of plagiarism has leaked out at the State University of California. The Berkleyan Society recently made arrangements for publishing a collection of verses by students .While the volume was in the printer's hands it was discovered that one of the sonnets by an undergraduate damsel was "boned" bodily from Coleridge. Later, when the sheets of three hundred copies had been struck off, another sonnet, stolen from a well known English poet, was found. The sheets were destroyed and the disgusted printer was forced a third time to make up the book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/6/1883 | See Source »

...damsel once at the annex...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJECTED COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/6/1882 | See Source »

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