Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone for Queen Victoria, when they were first engaged. My Lord, wishing the watch to be of unexceptionable excellence, had the case made in dear old Ireland [cheers from Irishmen], while the inside works were made on the sunny...
...sizes, for, to a near-sighted person a large hand is of great utility, and vice versa, each person being able to find a hand according to his eyesight. Take the reverse side of the watch. By a graceful and easy pry with my thumbnail I open the cover. Let me here call your attention to this patent nail arrangement. It is so constituted that, by the act of prying the cover, a portion of the nail is removed, and you will readily see that by changing fingers in opening the cover, all necessity of cutting one's nails will...
...verb to love let's conjugate...
Sweetheart, let me clasp thee to my bosom...
...Let us to the woodlands...