Word: dismay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...left to sorrow and dismay...
...name of the Union, and now in that of the King. To say who were the worse, the Cow-boys or the Skinners, would be hard indeed; both were as bad as they could be, - Arcades ambo! They made things so hot in Westchester that Old Nick fled in dismay from his disciples across Long Island Sound. Every place where his fiery hoofs touched the hissing sea there sprang up a black rock, and these now bear the name of the Devil's Stepping-Stones. His Satanic Majesty found in his place of refuge a congenial home, and has ever...