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Word: plums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

...College Chronicle rejoices in the glory of a new cover; also in Christmas stories, and an editorial on the same theme to the amount of five pages and more. This editorial gets in everything from the family joy on the return of the prodigal to "trimming the church" and plum-pudding; but, alas! ends as follows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/25/1878 | See Source »

...speedy death, as the greatest good which could happen to them. One can almost see the honest British yeomen, wiping the beer from their big mouths, and gazing in stupid wonder at the young philosopher who assured them that death was better than even the roast-beef and plum-pudding of Merry England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

More soft than peach, than plum more sleek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DREAMS. | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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