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Word: mayd (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...take her hand bag and start for Chicago. From Mame to Illinois, to her, seemed a great distance, for never had she ventured from the shadow of her native hills, never gone beyond the sound of dear old Ocean. More than this she must go alone-"a woeful, solitaire mayd." Nothing daunted by slories of disagreeable things which interested friends took pains to relate were sure to happen at this particular season of the year, she enters the sleeper, (for the first time in her life) in Boston, one Saturday night, only to behold with horror the worst of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Men. | 1/27/1885 | See Source »

When he is aware of a nut-brown mayd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD SNODKYNS. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...lovely mayd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD SNODKYNS. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...straighte accosteth the nut-browne mayd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD SNODKYNS. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

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