Word: em
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Juniors, on, and give 'em fits...
They give 'em seats in Parliament...
...blame 'em if they are," said the stoutman. "If I was a young man, away off from home, with everybody turning the cold shoulder to me, I 'm afraid I 'd be dissipated. They seek the company which gives them the kindest reception. Now, judging from the specimens I 've seen, these young men, when they come here, are really fine fellows. As a rule, it is the best parents who send their sons to college, and it is their best sons that they send. Such sons will be more likely to do good than harm. I don't think...
...diphthong between the two short syllables of a dactyl is very unclassical. Of line seventh we can make nothing at all. The quantities run ____V ____V ____V ____VV ____, which no human power can get into a verse. But we strongly doubt if the translator knew that the em in falcem would go out before et, since line eight can only be scanned at all by keeping am in maturam before ab. In the same line, quo, though not positively wrong, should be rather...
...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 had to be hanged. That's a perfect woman's head, imaginary; don't make 'em that way nowadays, you know...