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Word: piped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...young lady accustomed to steam radiators writes to ask "What our stove smokes?" Why, the stove pipe of course...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/19/1882 | See Source »

...examination in Chemistry 2 will include blow-pipe analysis, crystallography and the first group of minerals. An examination upon the second group will be given after the mid-years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/14/1882 | See Source »

...name was no sooner out of my mouth than the man appeared. At my request he laid aside his light stove-pipe hat and generally observant air, and sat down. Then, stroking his beard from underneath, he began...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CLOTHES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...through and fell, so that there was no means of descent. It seemed as if the brave fireman and his precious burden must perish in the flames, but in a moment he appeared at a window and called out lustily to the pipemen below, "Put on that three-inch pipe;" and when they had done it, he cried, "Now throw me the strongest stream you can, right in this window;" and in dashed the stream with powerful force, right through the casement where he stood. Well, sir, I never should have believed it, if I had not stood right there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SLIGHTLY THE WRONG MAN. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

...this night, when he left me for a walk, he seemed stronger and more cheerful. I concluded that his nervous trouble had spent its force, and began to hope that before long he would be his old self again. Therefore I, sitting before the fire, smoking my pipe and reading very leisurely the morrow's lesson in Latin, awaited his coming back with some degree of unconcern. But when it grew to be eleven o'clock, and as yet no signs of him, I could not help being a little anxious. I don't know why - it is not usual...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

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