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Word: leans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miss Digge certainly did look sober, as she stood there in her "old gold" velvet dress, cut bias, and shirred all round, leaning against a bookcase just as she had seen Modjeska lean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIALOGUE UPON COLLEGE HAPPINESS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...increasing cloudiness and rain areas, variable winds, mostly from the north-east, falling barometer and stationary temperature," promptly responded the Bulletin Board, in a voice that told me not to bother him with useless questions. Before I could say anything more I saw in the distance four individuals, so lean and lank that I thought they must have some connection with Memorial Hall; and, in fact, they proved to be the Gargoyles from the tower. Following them came the two Pumps, who extended to me their handles, and shook hands in a painfully brisk manner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT THE BELL THINKS OF PRAYERS. | 5/3/1878 | See Source »

...when they list their lean and flashy songs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR BARDS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

...feet studding between each gallery. The width of the main part of the wing is about thirty-four feet, but the ground-floor is to be extended nineteen feet on the south side, and will run the length of the wing. This portion of the building will have a lean-to roof, and is to be divided into three rooms and a vestibule. The most easterly room, the dimensions of which are eighteen by twenty-six, is to be occupied by the librarian; the room next to this, going west, will be the assistant librarian's, dimensions nineteen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW LIBRARY. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...Lean on our arm when we walk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE TO GIRLS. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

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