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Word: growing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grow, to die; bring joy or blight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAY LEAVES FROM A BOOK OF HOURS. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...college papers are the originators of opinions. Poor deluded Freshmen! Public opinion, far from being the offspring of the papers, is their master; and, like Sindbad's "Old Man of the Sea," is riding them to death. If they could shake it off, they might stand up straight and grow strong. As it is, they scold vigorously at the instructors and the "marking-system," but turn their backs when some wrong appears at which the majority wink...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHO MAKES PUBLIC OPINION AT HARVARD? | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...winter, when the mocking skies grow mild...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON A WARM DAY IN WINTER. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

...shadows grow thicker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENTIMENTAL. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...Grow gentler, nobler, higher, - stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RONDEAU. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

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