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Word: knows (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Chelsea? We were on a "geological survey" to study the formations of the country around. Unfortunately, we only had a self-appointed '80 man for an instructor, but being an '80 man he was a perfect stranger there, so he was obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIZZY DAY. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...know the whole blest genus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TUTOR IN LOVE. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...like '82 develops one's eye for female beauty amazingly. My heart throbbed as she gazed at me in a pensive manner and sighed again. I resolved to storm the fort at once, and, bracing myself on recollections of conquests in the 'Port, I began: "O most bewitching stranger, know that you have before you a youth who for five summers has sought a maiden like you. A youth who wants to find a girl untarnished by the chromo civilization of the 19th century. She must know nothing of germans, lawn tennis, or the opera; her mind must...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CASTLE IN THE AIR. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...KNOW not what unheeded grace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAURIGKEIT. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...know that one has this much care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

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