Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...contents. Then, wearied out with his fruitless endeavors, he resigned all hope and began to cry. It was this that attracted the notice of the stranger, floundering about in the drifts a hundred feet away. Then the child felt himself lifted from the ground by a strong arm and heard a cheerful voice saying, "It's all right; we'll soon be at home. Oh, never mind the bundles...
...WELLESLEY COLLEGE girl heard her father criticised severely across a dinner-table. The critic paused a minute to say, "I hope he is no relative of yours, Miss?" Quick as thought she replied, with the utmost nonchalance, "Only a connection of my mother's by marriage." - Varsity...
...heard of that bitin' lamb some of them farmers 'round New Haven 's got. They say he's a teaser; bite right thro' a man's coat and think nothin' 't all of it. Barnum's trying to git him, and if his circus comes our way, I'm goin' to see that ere lamb or bust. Here comes that cussed slow clerk...
...aside, staggered]. - Well, I never. Perhaps she'd like a maid to herself and her own four and six, and - I've heard of such things, but [rises and walks up and down irritably, slashing his boots with his whip...
...said Goe, breaking into a merry laugh. "Me and Bang, we went right by his hut; did n't we, Bang? And we heard somebody talking, and what do you think it was? We peeped through a crack, me and Bang did, and we saw Yung walking up and down, and saying something; and did n't he look funny! Did n't he, Bang? And when he got through he looked scared, and said, 'It's a pome, and I'm a pote!' and I'm sure I don't know what that means...