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Word: likenesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Like grim warders from a smoke-girt tower...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONADNOCK. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

Whose leg, like the elephant's, hath thews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...enough that prices should rise like the mercury before a south-wind whenever a student enters a store, but every unfortunate person who has heard of Harvard must arm himself with a certificate of high moral character, borrow a car-fare, and make a pilgrimage to this Mecca of boundless generosity. Our poor friend Jones is just weak enough to be food for all these hungry visitors. Endowed with that thirst for knowledge so common here, he is always found in his room, and his generous heart compels him to cry "Come in" at every knock on his door. Many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARITY. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...Like a cloak the mist spread o'er the earth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONADNOCK. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...excelled in Gotham, and confidently believes not much inferior to that of Phoebus himself. In these and many other pursuits, besides his own regular and legitimate calling, undertaken less for pleasure than for notoriety, he has succeeded in producing upon the staid plodding men of our day an impression like that of the meteor, - his own guiding star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE "JIM-FISK" ELEMENT IN HUMAN NATURE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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