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Word: monsterous (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1874-1874
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...what a change! We awake to find all our bulwarks against this distressingly prosaic and democratic country rudely thrust aside. A hungry monster has arisen, which threatens to absorb us, annex us, - call it what new-fangled name ye will! We are hampered by the Port! While we of Old Cambridge have been enlightening the world, dreaming with Plato, fighting with Calvin, discussing with Darwin, a town - a modern, busy, trading, prosaic, mushroom, damnable town - has been started, is growing beneath our very nose! We believe they have a "City Hall" and a "Government," - we are not sure that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOWN vs. TOWN. | 11/20/1874 | See Source »

From the teeth of the monster, it swallows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IT HAS COME TO. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...sooth, some monster made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

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