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Word: patters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...boys do in the old refectory - if that blessed old refectory is still in the land of the living, and then we turned one to another and said: "None of us ever heard of Edwards stamping his iron heel. In our days we could hardly hear the patter of Dr. McLean's gum shoes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard-Princeton. | 12/6/1886 | See Source »

...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CO-EDUCATIONAL INCIDENT. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...Patter of drops mid the branches, vanguard of the army behind them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO BARBARA. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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