Word: dictu
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...necessarily incurred in obtaining them has recently been brought to our notice in a practical, and therefore very forcible way. The monopoly value that some of these pamphlets get in the hands of our very respectable, as well as very mercenary Cambridge stationers, is nothing short of being mirabile dictu. By magic, like the transformations in a fairy-tale, a few printed sheets, worth (with an allowance for a very respectable profit). about ten, fifteen, or even twenty-five cents, expand in value, or rather in price, to fifty cents, seventy-five cents, and upward. Of course the only cause...
Yesterday afternoon, a horse hitched to a sleigh fell in front of the post-office, breaking the shafts and severely injuring itself. The occupants of the sleigh, two ladies, seemed very little frightened by the accident, mirable dictu...
...mind is greatly exorcised by a letter I've received from "non infant horrible," Isaac, who now is exaltingly undergoing his annual examinations. My son, despite the preconcealed opinion of transducing people, is a literary, ecstatic sort of young man and is always doing concentric things, but now, "miseracordia dictu," he writes to me that he has bought the statute of the most divine woman that ever walked this territorial demisphere, Venus di Medici (I think that's the creature's name, anyhow, it's a heathenish barbacued name), and that he has dropped head over feet in love, with...