Word: particularity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they crept up to the window, and looked in. A gray-haired woman was sitting alone before the fire in an easy-chair. That she was far from comfortable, bodily or mentally, was evident from her nervous glances about the room, in particular at the face of a slow and respectable old-fashioned tall clock in the corner. The room was plainly, indeed barely, furnished. A single kerosene lamp burned dimly on the table...
...with $25.00 in event of his failure to accomplish the feat, excited so much interest about a month ago, has turned out to be a "myth." The offer was accepted by the Manhattan Athletic Club, who sent a letter, agreeing to "Mr. Scoville's" terms in every particular, except that they offered to pay all his expenses to New York, whether he succeeded in the attempt or not; and stipulated that he need not present them with the $25 00 offered in case of failure. This letter met with no response, and the post-master at Sweet's Corners, Massachusetts...
...talk very much about myself. I'm not egotistical. I am fully convinced of this, for I've heard myself say it a great many times. But there was one topic which I was perfectly willing to discuss, and that was the general excellence and particular fleetness of my Texan. In fact, I allowed it to be pretty universally understood around the neighborhood that I had a little horse with somewhere from three to five feet on him, which he was in the habit of throwing about with considerable promptitude when occasion required...
...alarming development. You feel like a horse in a tread-mill. A shout comes from the shore, "Keep going and you're all right." But you are painfully conscious that you can't keep going forever; that you were never designed for perpetual rotation. You are convinced that this particular log has some old-time grudge against you which it is bound to pay off now with your destruction. There is another of less truculent aspect within three feet of you. You determine to trust to its mercies. But to jump to it would be folly, for you could never...
...smile of expectation that illumined their faces, and consequently in order to undeceive them I placed particular emphasis on his name as I introduced him, but it was evident that in their impatience for the entertainment to begin they had not heeded the name...