Word: heathenish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young man and is always doing concentric things, but now, "miseracordia dictu," he writes to me that he has bought the statute of the most divine woman that ever walked this territorial demisphere, Venus di Medici (I think that's the creature's name, anyhow, it's a heathenish barbacued name), and that he has dropped head over feet in love, with her. Now I have no possible subjection to his being in love, when his heart don't palliate with divine commotion for his "hairy, fairy Lillian," as he calls this woman: but think of it, Mr. Brimstone...