Word: fain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Full fain would it bend...
...Full fain would rise...
...wealth of placid joy would fain invade...
...some more in store for me, wretched one! Let it be understood, however, that "J. N. M." is by no means so ferocious as might be supposed from the warmth with which the controversy is conducted. So small is, in fact, his bump of pugnaciousness, that he would fain let the matter rest, but for the honor the president of the Christian Brethren did him in answering his remarks in person, and under his own signature. That this gentleman thought it necessary to come to the front, in spite of the dauntless onslaught of "V. I. Z.," in the Echo...
...they 'd fain walk to Cambridge, - nothing less...