Word: detective
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...often been on the point of feeling at the sight of such smiling landscapes in reality. But at the same time you are fully aware that your pleasure was never quite this; there was always in your experience something that interfered, and which alone an artist's mind can detect and retain. This valley is by some, for unknown reasons, believed to be where Albert Durer, senior, was born; the village accordingly is named Eytas...
LAST Monday a thief went through the clothes, left in the boat-house, of those bathing and rowing, and carried off three fine watches, the united value of which is over $600. As heretofore, in similar cases, no effort to detect the thief has succeeded, we hardly dare hope for success this time; and can only warn all our readers to avoid the boat-house, when they have their valuables about them, as they would a real den of thieves...
...said companion himself divide the money on the church steps, and start for under the post-office; probably for more water. Nor shall I forget that beggar so utterly blind that he was led from room to room by a small boy, who nevertheless managed, with wonderful quickness, to detect said boy in the act of appropriating some of the scrip. Surely, "there are none so blind as those who will not see," and this man was a deserving object of charity...
...which will entail any serious penalty, he gets to look at the outside world as something rather amusing, a little vulgar, and not at all connected with himself. There are, of course, the usual number of exceptions to prove the rule. We have, in embryo, doctors who sharply detect disease in the unconscious passer-by, who prefer the attractions of clinics to those of the theatre; chemists who poison themselves and their friends with powerful drugs; ministers under the double influence of duty and taste not yet gratified; and lawyers familiar with the names, at least, of Blackstone, Coke...