Word: expressions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...terrible accident occurred on the Hudson River Railroad, last night, at Spuyten Duyvil, near New York. A local train ran into rear of the Atlantic express, which had stopped to repair a slight damage to one of the air brakes...
...number of members of the legislature were on board the express, and among them Senator Wagner, who is reported to have been killed...
...where is the language can rightly express...
While I, seeking for the appropriate words and requisite rhyme to express in an equally original manner the fact that her cheeks were also like roses, whereas her eyes and hair were not, she interrupted all further flow of inward poesy by inquiring, in a tone of ill-omened penetrativenes...
...marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...