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Word: excepts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next day I went in, dressed in calling costume, - black coat, &c., - and was met by a chorus of disapprobation. "How ungraceful these modern garments are! Why did n't you wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALMOST A STATUE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

PARK THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M. Matinee, Saturday, at 2. To-night and Saturday night, John T. Raymond as Col. Mulberry Sellers. Saturday matinee, "Risks." Next week, Mr. Edwin Booth begins a farewell engagement of three weeks. Monday and the rest of the week, except Saturday evening, "Hamlet"; Saturday evening, "Othello" (Mr. Booth as lago), March 15, "Richelieu," three nights; "The Fool's Revenge," two; "Richard III.," one; "Don Cesar de Bazan," matinee. March 22, "Othello," one night; "Richard III.," two; "Hamlet," one; "Ruy Blas," one; "Merchant of Venice" and "Taming of the Shrew," one night and one matinee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

...confound you, Pam, aw, - I did n't drink it, you know, - aw, - I never drink, you know, - this is a temperance hotel, - I never even eat, you know, except 'Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge' that comes from the - aw - law pills below...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HALL OF MEMORIES. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

Yours, GLADSTONE.AMERICANS AND GENTLEMEN, - Usually I have plenty of spare time, and would be with you; but, gentlemen, there is going to be a vast European war which may involve all the world except Germany in destruction. Would n't you like to know what I am going to do about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BREAKFAST. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

...will be allowed to play at Lacrosse or Tennis with the balls from the bowling-alleys, or to use them in any way except by placing them gently on the alley and suffering them to roll down the alley by their own weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIT OF PAPER. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

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