Word: fain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this world. By an ingenious process of castle-building she attains her end in about fifteen minutes; but the powers of earth, air, water, and fire - as exemplified in the sun - begin to send in such exorbitant tax-bills for the use of their respective elements, that she is fain to return to her former state, and to content herself with the hope of a future reward. The merits of this article are so delightfully uniform that it is almost impossible to choose any one passage for citation; but the manner in which "small cottages" and "elegant equipages" are contrasted...
...FAIN would I sing in Epic lays...
...Fain would I echo Cadmus' praise...
...fain a maid would...
...Were fain to have the feet of Plenty stand...