Word: ladye
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THE latest thing in puffs is printed by the "Cascadilla Art Gallery" in Ithaca. It is a letter from "a prominent lady of Hartford," asking for two dozen more copies of her last portrait, which makes her "look as she hopes to look in HEAVEN."
Of all places Putnam's Hill was the most interesting. Here was the spot where Putnam galloped down the church steps at full speed, shaking his fist at the British and receiving, in exchange of compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before...
OLD LADY (who sleeps badly). Now, Mary, if I should want to light my candle, are the matches there? MARY. Yes, ma'am, there's wan. OLD LADY. One! What if it misses fire or won't light? MARY. O, niver a fear, ma'am. Sure I tried it. - Chronicle...
Then, by good luck, in came an old lady of seventy, going to spend a week with her niece. She had three trunks, two carpet-bags, a band-box, an umbrella, a bundle of clothes, a parasol, a bundle of tracts, a jar of pickles, some peppermints, a few odd...
The last I saw of the wreck the calf had devoured most of the old lady's pickles and peppermints, and had begun on her bonnet; and the conductor, Bill, and the fireman were asking how it happened, and laying the blame on each other. I returned North by another...