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Word: prowl (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumor has come to our ears that several freshmen have been seen about the yard wearing silk hats and carrying canes as big as piano legs. We have detailed our fighting editor to prowl about the yard nights with a shot gun and a pair of bull pups. We feel it our duty to give adventurous freshman warning of the dire fate that awaits them if they perist in their rash ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/5/1887 | See Source »

Have I not, to my despisers, solved the great question? Go ye and laugh, go ye at night and prowl round the streets and grin like dogs. '90 is vindicated at last...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/21/1887 | See Source »

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