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Word: pies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Usage:

...crusts of bread can be turned into a savory pudding, and the debris of fricasseed chicken into a warm and nourishing hash. Instead of the quail on toast or tenderloin steaks for which we had starved ourselves for several days, we were regaled with a strange compound called beef pie, a cousin German of our old enemy beef stew, and the entirely novel expedient of fried mush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/18/1885 | See Source »

...lives of that class must have been made miserable by the exactions and duties which were required of them. Everyone from the president in his wig and gown down to the newly fledged sophomore could make those poor mortals do their bidding. The freshmen then had to eat "humble pie" such as they have never since tasted, even when nowadays their fondest hopes are blasted. How low they were held by their betters these last rules will show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PATERNAL GOVERNMENT. | 3/21/1884 | See Source »

...better than consent. So, like a dish of cream with two spoons, the supper intended for the freshmen served as a repast for both classes. The young lady freshmen, however, fared better than their brothers at Cornell, for they at least had a finger in their own pie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 3/11/1884 | See Source »

...chicken pie...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUCCANEER STUDENTS. | 12/17/1883 | See Source »

...Miles, better known as 'Pie-mouth.' has taken the wings of the morning, and departed from our midst...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT SOME OF OUR EXCHANGES SAY | 10/17/1883 | See Source »

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