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Word: flee (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this book credited to their true authors, we fear we should be held for high treason; for what a ludicrous lowering of dignities there would be! If it were to be known that an overseer of Harvard once penned Horatian stanzas of the following sort, where would all authority flee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 3/8/1882 | See Source »

...JULIA. Flee as a bird to your mountain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCENE TAKEN FROM THE NEW HARVARD EDITION OF SHAKSPEARE. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

...than the snow beneath our feet he grew as he saw the bristly gray hide shoo : over my doublet and hose, while my belt, unclasped and clothed with a bushy gray hair, fell down behind. "Sainte Vierge" he cried, his eyeballs starting from his head, as he tried to flee. "Madelon," I snarled, as I leapt after him, "Madelo-o-o-o-o-n;" and my gay gray comrades answered from the forest, "O-o-o-o-n," as they sprang out from the dark shadows; he tried to draw his knife, but my sharp teeth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NIGHTMARE. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...Sorrow's step we turn to flee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RONDEAU. | 6/4/1880 | See Source »

...approached more swift than I could flee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE COMEDY. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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