Word: mention
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first mention of the stylograph as yet, in fiction, is in the continuation of Howells' story, "A Modern Instance," in the March Century...
...first mention of aestheticism in the Bible is not when Balaam's ass was made to(o) utter, but more primevally - when the procession of the animals entering...
...student inquires whether the account of the washing of the clothes by the Trojan women in the "Iliad" is really the first historical mention of the Troy laundry...
...room is a boating man his oars are crossed upon the walls; his gloves are there, too, if he studies the manly art; and his foils if he follows fencing. There is in everything a suggestion of study and manly amusements. Many of the rooms are historic, and a mention of the celebrated persons who have occupied them would be a history of Harvard College...
...improvement. His utterances were too stiff and forced to sound natural. The parts of Teiresias, and Messenger from Corinth, assumed by Mr. J. F. Hagan, and the Messenger from the Palace, by Mr. P. C. Hagar, a rising young actor of two or three years' standing, deserve favorable mention...