Word: fig
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...small task to render pleasant and entertaining the history of the life of such a man as Longfellow. His career can hardly be called an eventful one; he passed the most of his days in quiet and peace, "within the shade of his own fig tree." The many blessings that fortune had given him enabled him to live apart from the noise and strife of the more unfortunate part of society. The author of this work, however, Mr. Sloane Kennedy, a graduate of Yale, has succeeded most admirably in his attempt to present all the important things connected with Longfellow...
Bona fide widow. - I don't believe she cares a fig for him, anyway; she excuses it by saying that her intellectual reservoir would run dry without constant replenishing...