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Word: modeste (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...second number of a modest little journal called the Lehigh Journal has come to hand. Let it not attempt too much, is our advice (gratis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...modest young lady guards the portal of that famous basement in Beacon Street, and receives your fee before you enter the shades beyond. Besides this pecuniary transaction she requests you to inscribe your name in a ponderous volume. Could it be that I was thus leaving a last record for the outer world before opening that mysterious plate-glass door on which I deciphered the words "Ring the Bell and Walk in"? I began to feel slightly nervous, and to repent my rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...Groton's oration was ably written and well delivered. In his modest and graceful exordium he alluded to the long-courted obscurity of the society, now laid aside for the first time after eight years of successful existence. He then passed to his subject, "Genius," in the treatment of which he showed equal facility of expression and freshness of thought. Many of the touches in the latter part evidenced the presence of the subject of his oration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC EXERCISES OF THE II H SOCIETY. | 6/2/1873 | See Source »

...made by this combination was immense. The Fiend and the Phoenix were quoted far and wide. Even after the immediate appropriateness of their use was past, the newspaper men could n't give them up. It is but recently that a leading Boston daily ascribed a very modest and unpretentious conflagration to that same old demon, - the Fire-Fiend...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY FORMULAE. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...MODEST Muffin objects to playing ball in the Yard, because it is too public! Many have found it to be one private also...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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