Word: dearly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Such a dear, pretty fellow...
...Such a dear, pretty fellow...
...lover of learning," and he seems indeed to have deserved them. His estate shows that he had a competency in England, his library that he was a scholar and a man of some culture; yet for either moral or religious principles, he left everything that could have been dear to him to plunge into a comparative wilderness...
...Then to Harvard, dear Harvard, and all, far and near...
Poet - "But, my dear sir, it is now four years since you accepted my epic, and no steps have yet been taken to publish it." Publisher - "Don't be in a hurry, young man. Homer had to wait more than three thousand years before he got into print, and you can hardly claim that your poem is an Illiad." - [Fliegende Blatter...