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Word: overlying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Usage:

One of the religious societies here has published a pamphlet, showing that, on the principles of the gyroscope, we are liable every time we dance and get to whirling fast to whop over on to our heads and spin there.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

I'm dying for a smoke, and as I have n't any tobacco of my own, I think I'll close and go over to my Freshman's to roll a cigarette.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

And spoke of love triumphant over death.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VALENTINE. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

As long as these things are so, the student may study conscientiously, but his study will be a task. He may pore over the pages of his classics in the prescribed manner, but he will rise from his labor with no notion of the grandeur of the work which he...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LITERARY RUSKINISM. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

Having been invited to write something for a college paper, I complied with the request and sat down one day to gather a few scattered thoughts. With his usual inquisitiveness he asked me what I was doing. I answered "Writing." He wished to know "about what." I replied, "Loafers," and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GUESTS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

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