Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said the old man, drawing up a chair and cosily seating himself at Renardy's elbow, while he produced a pamphlet from his little black valise, - "eh? Well, you never saw anything so valuable as this. Here's George Washington, the Father of his Country; there's his moral nature, very large - veneration, conscientiousness, could n't tell a lie, you know, when his father...
...Here's Franklin," confidentially remarked the old man, hitching his chair up closer, - "individuality, perception, lightning was his playground, you know; economy, - Poor Richard's Almanac's right there, you see. Here's the murderer of a whole family; destructiveness right in his head, - never had it examined, and so had to be hanged. That's a perfect woman's head, imaginary; don't make 'em that way nowadays, you know...
...Look here," interrupted Renardy, "why are you, an old gray haired man, travelling around the country and talking like that? How did you ever get away from your friends...
...Here's the head of a full grown idiot," said the old man, eagerly, "and here's a celebrated thief and liar, I don't know but what you knew...
...old man was saying as I came back, - "no, I don't think you 've rightly chosen your path in life. You 're scarcely fitted for the ministry. Spirituality - you see, - reverence, veneration, very small and there 's development here," passing his hand over the back of Renardy's head and neck; "that the Boston folks, you know, don't like in their ministers, though it's popular enough down in Brooklyn. You 'd make a good soldier, now, - large nose...