Word: merest
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...pity that so few men were on Holmes Field yesterday afternoon to witness what turned out to be one of the best games of the season. Bates was wonderfully effective, allowing Morrill's men to make only two hits. One of these was the merest scratch, and the other was made by the last man in the last inning. The whole team backed up the pitcher in a way that left very little to be desired. Bates fumbled a grounder in the first inning and Dickinson another rather difficult one in the sixth, but with these exceptions the fielding...
...romance was remarkable, it was at least within the lines in which story tellers are accustomed to confine themselves; but the character introduced in the second part is so inexplicable, and his action in the story so tremendous, that what has seemed but strange hitherto becomes now the merest commonplace. The power of the story is analogous to that which one finds in Poe's "Fall of the House of Usher...