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Word: pales (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...again the moon's pale shimmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHIMES OF LUCERNE. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...imperial Rome, by the loose and baggy garment which hangs about and yet separates the lower limbs, and which is unquestionably the direct ancestor of the modern trousers. When the artist of the days of the Antonines desired to represent a wretched being, born and bred without the pale of a civilized existence, he accomplished his end, at once with ease and with certainty, by his treatment of the legs of his subject, - a clear proof that, although not regularly recognized, knemidology has just claims to a very respectable antiquity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNEMIDOLOGY. | 6/4/1875 | See Source »

Cebes and Socrates had just begun a mirthful controversy in regard to the infinity of the absolute, when the Clown was observed to stammer and turn pale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENIAN HIPPODROME. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...stopped, and hurriedly drank three glasses of sherry (I have given up the best pale, since Sanglier began to call so often), and rushed out, leaving me speechless. Class-Day eve, and Tom in that condition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOW WE WENT TO EUROPE. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

...worships the pale evening star...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOVE SONNETS. | 6/19/1874 | See Source »

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