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Word: paled (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Pale icicles are frozen round my grate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EHEU! EHEU! | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...shivering, the myrtle pale and yield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEET OF THE WINDS. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

There was a small window, like a ticket-office, at which I presented myself. A diminutive, pale man came up and looked at me, then smiled, - it seemed like a smile of pity! There was a girl in the office, - she smiled! If I could have honorably backed out I should have done so. The small man pointed to a register, and I registered, thinking it a precaution in case of accident, heart-disease, etc. Had I heart-disease undeveloped, but only needing something like this to bring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

...Pale man said, "Pull the bell." I passed into a gloomy passage and pulled a bell; a distant tinkle sounded at the end of the passage, a door opened, and a solemn man in a girdle received me. In the distance I caught sight of a room like a hospital ward, - narrow beds, exhausted sufferers. Something was the matter with my guide; instead of speaking he pointed. I longed to get out into the open air. He directed me by signs to a little room and a girdle. After girdling I followed him to a door; it opened...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

...pale crescent moon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO A FLIRT. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

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