Word: fish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted a solution with a little glacier in his; but Chelsea being a temperance town it was not to be considered. Finally we decided that each man should...
...foreshadowing of homoeopathy in the story of the man who sought in brambles a cure for wounds received from brambles. But I prefer to take what the lively bird gives us in its simplicity. What a large class of our fellow-beings is represented by "Tommy Tittlemouse," who "caught fishes in other men's ditches"! Many of us go even further, and, not content with the ditch of another, we seize his hand, make it a cat's paw, and supplement our fish with chestnuts...
...quickly fish for sons...
...Lord!" I groaned to myself, "it's all up with me now. That miserable fool, Billy Lawson, who was down last week and lost $5 to me at poker, has given me dead away. No more shall I fish the streams of Smithfield Centre, or stroll in the woods with my pretty cousin Priscilla. Uncle Luther will never invite again such a godless sinner as I am to spend the summer at his house...
...dislocate my elbows in walking, I don't see how she knew. "Been a-fishin'?" was her next remark. I said I had, and, to make conversation, produced my bass. She examined them critically, and announced that though "mighty mean little ones, they were reel bass, - acanthopterygious fish, of the genus perca, so called from their dark color...