Word: parrot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Amid the howls of the affrighted animals, the shrieks of women, and the thunder of the elements, they rushed round (as did several thousand others) with a stoical indifference to their personal peril, and besought all to calm themselves. It was owing to their superhuman exertions that only one parrot escaped, and to their disinterested attentions that several young and lovely women were saved the disgrace of fainting in so public a place...