Word: plain
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have a distinctly moral purpose," this lady began, "in everything I say, although I always speak out plain and 'call a spade a spade...
...stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised to settle at some future time. A man's clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could...
...glad you mentioned it, I was afraid it was not quite clear. Well, to begin with, you remember that the decuriones - But to go back a little. You remember that when the Aryan nations came from the plain of - Perhaps I had better take the pointer and point...
...just putting the finishing touch on my machine one evening, when suddenly it started of itself, and, catching me in its arms, threw me off into space. I knew nothing more until I found myself lying in a desolate plain before a high city-wall. A man was bending over me, whispering to himself something that sounded like "Sad! so young!" when I rose to my feet, and convinced him that nothing was the matter with...
...Give - me - a - plain - soda...