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Word: nun (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Like hood upon the passing nun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUEDOC. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...dead hopes of a nun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERIE. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...death-life of a nun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERIE. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...Habe nun, ach ! Philosophie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROGRESSIVE AGE. | 2/8/1878 | See Source »

...choicest bits of learning and wisdom which he had himself acquired throughout his long, busy, and thoughtful life. There is a picture in Punch of a little girl, discovering that her doll is stuffed with sawdust, exclaiming that the world is hollow and that she wants to be a nun. So Kenelm Chillingly very early in life discovers that everything is vanity or humbug, and falls into that cynicism of the nobler sort, - possible only in a generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

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