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Word: patent (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Solomons' glossiest castors. I enounced the usual formula for "ol'-clo'" men; hadn't any hat, coat, waistcoat, - anything suited to purposes of dicker. Had plenty of money, and when I did get low in funds would let him know. (I had shortly before assured a pedler of patent book-rests that I was completely "broke," and should n't have a remittance till March...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OLD HATS. | 1/9/1874 | See Source »

...patent back-action hand-spring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUT OF THE WINDOW. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...Bulwer the desire for effecting political ends is not so patent, if it exists at all, as in the works of D'Israeli and other novelists in public life. Society, and even history, are Bulwer's debtors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULWER. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

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