Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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For the sorrowful eyes of this creature so good
Some kind of mysterious hook had uncaught,
And that marvel of rigging, her bustle, was twisted.
To think in the street of a thing save her dress
FOR a single writer to traverse the whole range of English literature without a stumble would be almost impossible. Mr. Taine, although on the whole wonderfully apt to be right, is acknowledged to have made some mistakes; and one of these mistakes is, I think, his estimation of Thackeray. It...