Word: laird
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although I be an honest laird...
...Oxford man, says Robert Laird Collier, is known in society by his drawl. The present writer has several young Oxford friends, who are true, good, truth-loving fellows. One of these has swept honor after honor, and lives on their income, and his conversation is all of the Lord Dundreary style. This is just what he said to a young lady friend in my hearing within a fortnight. He sat with one knee tightly held in his clasped fingers: "Do-eh-er-like-er-music? I-eh-ye-know-eh-like-er-music-eh-ye-know." It is said these...