Word: plain
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...sing at a concert in Salem some time in January, and have in view concerts at Brookline, Jamaica Plain, New Bedford, and Boston, besides the regular February and June concerts with the Pierian Sodality...
Along the plain our muskets bright...
Their solid ranks passed o'er the plain...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...
...their movements plain betokened...