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Word: forehead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...probably give the "Jesus" giants seventy-five in one hundred and beat them, especially when we remember that the curriculum now at an English university is athletic sports, and the rest nowhere, and that consequently the breadth across the chest is perhaps of more consequence than across the forehead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENGLISHMAN'S IMPRESSION OF HARVARD. | 3/24/1883 | See Source »

...father threw his arms around her, and pressed his lips to her forehead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...mouth shows decision and determination. She's rather opinionative. There's a deal of individuality about that forehead; and I war-want that beneath that depth of dark-brown hair there are some terrific uprisings of combativeness. That nose, too, just the least bit on the ascendency, bespeaks a fond relish for logomachy; it starts up just a little as if it sniffed the air for scents of strife and combat." Thus spoke my reflective, phrenological self. But my unphrenological, my natural self, exclaimed, "By the six consumptive sons of my goodie, this girl has a pretty face! Wonderfully pretty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE YALE GIRL. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

MNAG BIG, the great philosopher, sat waiting for Yung. He was an old man, old rather with thought than with years. His bowed head was gray, his long thin arms appeared nerveless, only his high forehead showed itself to be the covering of a mind still strong and vigorous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

...same, for on your forehead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO - , ON RECEIVING HER PICTURE. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

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