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Word: plump (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...inch slide pulled a clean and powerful stroke, while he kept his shell on a perfectly even keel. Livingstone's boat rolled, and he had a trick of bending himself up at the catch which was enough to take the wind out of any man. The Yale man looked plump and well-fed, but had evidently had very little of that training which gave the Harvard man his fine and clean-cut figure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SINGLE-SCULL RACE. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

FIRST catch your judges and assort them carefully. Pick out some plump and tender specimens, and mix with them a few thin and tough ones. If possible, have one or more of them boast that he knows nothing about speaking. Next proceed to make a small hole in the skull of each judge and draw out his brains. They are now ready for use. Place them under a slow gas fire from the speakers for two hours or more, and then remove them to another apartment. Plunge them at once into a stewpan, sprinkle in a liberal allowance of pepper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RECIPE FOR MAKING A BOYLSTON PRIZE AWARD. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

...comes back to it, but she lives away front it. Every hard-earned dollar is spent in dress and a praiseworthy attempt to make herself comely and fascinating; she emerges from her room as a butterfly from its unpretending chrysalis, and hardly any one could imagine the plump little shop-girl that serves him so deftly ever came down from such garret-like apartments, and trudges her way to the more frequented and busy streets...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRISETTE. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »

...Three plump and tender Freshmen, who chanced to be loitering in the hotel, were seized, roasted, served with celery and tomato-catsup, and eaten with great relish by the brutal Sophomores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REIGN OF TERROR IN BOSTON. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

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