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Word: nut (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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When he is aware of a nut-brown mayd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD SNODKYNS. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...straighte accosteth the nut-browne mayd...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHILD SNODKYNS. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

...reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small cavity, no larger than a tennis-ball, was laid open. The matter therein examined was viscous, sprinkled with a fine metallic dust resembling brass. One of the surgeons, a clever psychologist, thought that undue conceit had caused the viscosity of the brain tissues. Another attributed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SURGICAL OPERATIONS. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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