Word: mine
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...idea, too, that this shaggy little quadruped of mine had a way of being in quite a number of different places in a very short space of time. To be sure, I had never paced him on a regular professional track, but it seemed to me that he was in the habit of marking off the prairies at a remarkably cheerful gait. In short, I looked upon him as quite a jewel in an equine way. So when I came eastward, about the first of September, I brought Ceph (Ceph is familiar for Bucephalus) along with me, and we settled...
...Mine unforgotten...
...that she was somehow restless; and after supper, when I had drawn my chair before the glowing wood-fire, "Let me tell you a story, Mira," I said. And with that she seated herself by my side, and, slipping her little hand in mine, she listened dreamily...
FORGIVE what wrong was mine, my friend...
...looking vacantly at the departing train when I heard a familiar voice close behind me: "How did you know that I was coming out today?" and turning I saw a classmate of mine, George Curtis, to whom I had extended a standing invitation to visit me in my summer retirement. I was glad to see him, though he came rather unexpectedly...