Word: jarring
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Smote on the tempest's lull with sudden jar...
...hospitality, if I indulge in a few reflections on the characteristics of some of my guests. I mean those whose comings and goings are regulated by the convenient location of my room, the extent of my library, especially that part relating to translations, and the condition of my tobacco-jar...
...distant Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word in regard to his "memorandum." When, at a thoughtless moment, I paid him, he seemed...