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Word: drives (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...takes eight hundred full-blown roses to make a single tablespoonful of the famous perfume, and you can get enough perfume out of an onion to drive a dog on the gallop out of a slaughter house. And yet we admire the rose more than we do the onion. - [Post...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/23/1882 | See Source »

...latest method of making an oyster stew is to drive a couple of small oysters with rubber boots on through a pan of diluted milk. One of the boarding-houses in town has taken out a patent. The boys say that the stew is good and don't taste badly of the rubber...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO GUSSIE. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...this happened two years ago. But tonight, as I hear again the waves upon the beach, I cannot drive the thoughts of that time from my mind. And I hold a bit of blue ribbon in my fingers; and, as I look, I cannot keep back the tears. "If I should not see you then, you would not forget me?" I have not forgotten, Mira...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...hatee Shirts. He one bad man. He drive us to Boston. We no likee dat. Me hatee Shirts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

...once useful and interesting"? No! I won't take a ticket, and I won't let any one else, and I'm going to prosecute you and the Philosophical Club and the Rum Club and the Society of Naturals. It's shameful that such organizations should exist! They drive me crazy! I've been to readings, concerts, lectures, and consultations in Sever, Harvard, Boylston, and University for five months now, and the end must be near. What man has done man can (en)du(re). But the pitcher may go to the bat once too often. If the Calendar goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSSIBLE HISTORY. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

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