Word: donning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"Ah!" said the little man, "you 're desirous of submitting your head to the skilful manipulation of an experienced phrenologist. There's lots of lives wasted because people don't find out what they 're fitted for and what they ain't. Now I, sir, who have been a professor...
"Here's Franklin," confidentially remarked the old man, hitching his chair up closer, - "individuality, perception, lightning was his playground, you know; economy, - Poor Richard's Almanac's right there, you see. Here's the murderer of a whole family; destructiveness right in his head, - never had it examined, and so...
TO the novel-reader who has not confined the gratification of his taste to more recent productions, but has dipped into the pastoral and the chivalric romances of the seventeenth century, one of the few interesting features of that dreary region lies in the opportunities for contrasting the behavior of...
It is not so many years since the class of "long-speech" novels died out, for its most prominent representatives in this century are the works of G. P. R. James. His minute descriptions of his heroines, beginning with the "finely pencilled eyebrows" and "shell-like ear," and extending to...
Or the fault may lie in my own stupidity; for I confess that even yet I cannot see the connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that...