Word: mate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Bronson Howard's new play, "Young Mrs. Winthrop," produced at the Madison-square Theatre, last Monday night, is the fourth play brought out at that house since it was opened. It appears, according to the newspaper accounts, to be a worthy mate of the preceding successes...
...double scull was won by John Buckly and mate...
...fancy the distaste which a high-minded, inexperienced young ape would feel at the announcement that her mate had been selected for her, and was about to take possession of her, regardless of her feelings...
...explain his sudden delinium on the night of his room-mate's disappearance, I do not know. Supernatural visions there are, unexplained and inexplicable. Of course, one can call it insanity, if one wishes. It is a strange delusion, too, that the poor fellow should imagine himself to be doing a large importing business at Buenos Ayres. But he is kept out doors as much as possible, always with the attendants in sight. It is a small but well-furnished and pleasant house at Manumet Point, near Plymouth, where he lives...
...disappearance of his room-mate - which no one has ever yet accounted for, except to suppose that the poor fellow met an accidental death on the night in question - worked upon him in such a manner that the very sad result ensued. I see by reading his account of the matter that, with the wonderful precision and clearness which insanity sometimes attains, he has given a very clear account of all that happened up to the time of that terrible outbreak on Red Hill. There he burst forth a raving madman. What might have happened had not two other pedestrians...