Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...need of an auctioneer to sell property, I can recommend a Western friend of mine whom I chanced to meet this year. While travelling, this summer, I was obliged to pass a night in a Colorado mining settlement composed of men of all nationalities, and it was there that I met my man, as follows...
Thus he was engaged, doing the agreeable, and was flattering himself that he was becoming a genuine "Little-Tin-God," when, to his unspeakable horror, what did he see but his own true-love, with her friend and an upper classman, whom he recognized as a relative of the latter, entering the field and taking a seat on a neighboring bench. Shipkins could have met annihilation with calm satisfaction, but to meet her, - her whom he had invited and then failed to meet, and for her to see him with another, - it was too much...
...adaptation of Genee's "Der Seekadet," is a bright piece very well acted and sung by the company which performed it with such success in New York. Miss Catherine Lewis is excellent as Fanchette, the gipsy girl who disguises herself as a midshipman, in order to get her friend Don Lamberto (Mr. Hatch) out of an awkward predicament. June 14, "All the Rage," which is said to be very amusing...
...will be surprised, O friend of my bosom, to learn that here neither the men nor the women attach any importance to their hair. None of the graces of a closely cropped crown or a long plait adorn American heads. The men cut off their hair in places called barber's shops, where three times a week they have their faces painted white with a mixture of froth and fire-water. I was curious to visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut...
Although, O my beloved friend, the departing fireball reminds me that I must part from you on paper, my heart still fondly throbs for thee, and that blessings may fall upon thee is the earnest prayer...