Word: meanly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mummies, what mummies?" said Mr. Morse. "Perhaps you mean my old bones that have given so much trouble. Just tell the Customs, 'old bones...
...said the girl, "the words don't mean much, but it's a pretty tune...
...best things in life are free", were the startling words which dropped from the divine lady's, shall be say tempress' lips at exactly the moment we are now writing about, and the Vagabond sat up with amazing rapidity, almost, it might be said, with alacrity. Did she mean the champagne? Impossible--she had had only one glass--her first, the Vagabond could have sworn. No, decidedly, she couldn't mean the champagne. Some rejoinder was necessary. The Vagabond searched his cataloguic, almost encyclopedeaic mind for the things of the world that are free. Free speech--bad in a democratic...
...life Christmas has been the same. The same friends, the same gifts that didn't mean anything. Telling people things you didn't mean...
This was when the ugly duchess was journeying to her marriage. Her husband, the Count of Tyrol, was a sulky child; beneath his mean but not repulsive features he concealed a small mind, as ratlike as his face, and as commonplace. The clever duchess favored her husband's page, Chretien de Laferte; but, in a few years, after she had given him castles and wide lands, the page humbled her by marrying Agnes von Flavon whose stupidity Margarete disdained, whose beauty made her furious. The bitter, hideous little woman had Chretien killed; and when the Count of Tyrol invited Agnes...