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Word: ear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same in Greek!" I cried, altering the proverb to suit her aesthetic ear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA FEMME SAVANTE. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

THERE are many American college papers that rejoice in names which defy the tongue and grate harshly upon the ear; the following are some of the names given to our English contemporaries: Carthusian, Salopian, Cheltonian, Ulula, Wykehamist, Welingtonian, Malvernian, Armachian, Ousel, Elizabethan, Haileyburian, Denstonian, Glenalmond Chronicle, and Rossallian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...other hand, every course, even in the Mathematics, had a couple of admirers, and it being known that I was searching for knowledge, there grew up a sort of free fight on the electives in my room, at which I was moderator, and while one grind yelled in one ear the praises of the Hitopadeca, one on the other side recited Beowulf, and another screamed the theory of Quaternions down my neck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FAIR ELECTION. | 5/18/1877 | See Source »

...comes up stairs taking three steps to each word. And there is so great a fondness for attempting this latter kind of music manifest at all times, that it seems almost unaccountable that the modest Italian should not be permitted to rest beneath our windows and tutor the untuneful ear into a correct knowledge of its favorite airs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ORGAN-GRINDER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

...Charcoal Man," written by Trowbridge, in which the honest hero is pictured as coming home after shouting his familiar cry since early morn, and listening to the never-failing echo, and as he enters the room, he bends over the baby's crib, and whispers "charco' " in the little ear. The youngster cooing with delight, tosses up his arms, and echoes "harko' " just as the hills had been doing all day long. Now, why cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life? Let him be pictured coming into his home, chinking the coin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ORGAN-GRINDER. | 4/20/1877 | See Source »

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