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Word: odiously (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...times have lacked strength to propel, while at the same time, that other extreme, so suggestive of elementary spelling-books and "puss-in-the-corner," is nowhere to be met with in its pages. It is very interesting, extremely sensible, and thoroughly feminine. As comparisons are odious, we will not draw any; but when we make a mental contrast between the Packer and some of its masculine, "poluphloisboical" "University" brethren, we are free to say that the advantage lies all on one side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

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