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Word: oils (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire at Cincinnati last night destroyed the manufactory of the Miami Oil and Soap Co., all but the storage rooms. The loss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/28/1882 | See Source »

...owes its weakness to this powerful and deadly nervine. It does not kill at sight, but, none the less, it does harm. A monkey will eat tobacco with impunity, but it does not follow that human beings will bear it. And even men are careful about the juice or oil. "Keep thy heart with all diligence," may apply to physical no less than to moral well-being...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/24/1882 | See Source »

Flavius now sues Lentulus for the cost of oil burned during his calls, some of which, says the prosecutor, lasted three weeks. Lentulus puts in a rejoinder, and says that on three several occasions he kissed the girl, who is homely enough to quiet the Delphic oracle, and that in consideration of this he ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMAN DAILY SQUINT-EYE. | 2/23/1882 | See Source »

...glared in at the castle windows redly, and threw stains like blood upon the floor. The apartment was furnished with the utmost elegance imaginable, - tapestries, oil-paintings from the great masters, ormulu and buhl in profusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COPYRIGHT CONGRESS. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...their pupils. There is not that close relation existing between instructor and pupil which we should like to see in a preparatory school. The instructors, while assuming the dignity of university professors, treat the scholars as boys. All are shaped for college with one machine, and the only oil used is the well-known "roughing." As long as the professors continue in this course, we cannot but predict these petty outbreaks which so injure the good name of the best preparatory school we have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

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