Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...help the poor woman, how she has suffered! Jacob Hannam, there's an indictment against you! Come, child...
...commonplace story enough, this Posett episode turns out to be, no doubt; that on Christmas Eve the long-absent John Bond returned to his sister, to find her poor, to make her comfortable and happy, despite wretched old Jacob Hannam. Posett people despised the latter more than ever, after this...
...good thing's said without malice aforethought. Just talk a little vaguely, and people (after you've got up your reputation) will be sure to twist your words into meanings which are equally new and acceptable to you. Above all, keep trying. There's nothing like it. Remember how Jacob wrestled with the angel. Do you in like manner wrestle with bon mots. Affect to read strange and uncommon books. Be unusual in your tastes. Be any thing rather than nothing. You must keep prominently before people's eyes at any cost; for so long as you are notorious there...
...Historical Club proved to me conclusively that the Valtelline Pass was a monument to the discovery of Vaseline - first used here to keep the trunks of Pyrrhus's elephants from chapping, and their chests from feeling the ill effects of the failure of the army's supply of St. Jacob's Oil. ["Cures all affections of the lungs!" "The 'only' panacea!" "Millions in it!"] Finally, at a German reading, when I tried calmly to enjoy the beauties of Goethe, I found myself perfectly competent to give an elaborate and exact account of the natural history of the gopher, Apollinaris Water...