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Word: purely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...snow-white cuffs, once spotless and pure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CHRISTMAS CAROL. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...appoggiatura. I forget what I was about to say - Oh! Your trousers. The trouble with them is that they are not in pure style - they're really quite too, too supertonic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY CLOTHES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...great field of early English literature, where "the harvest truly is plenteous, but the laborers are few." The glory of Chaucer's poetry will surely not grow dim in future years, nor the sweet music of our morning of song die away. Let all lovers of what is pure and noble in English literature do their best to stimulate a study of our early writers, by helping forward these societies, the Chaucer and the New Shakspere. The yearly subscription can be paid to Professor Child, the American secretary of both, and the return will more than justify the expenditure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...that one must always have a religion, so as to be respectable) you may object that we only pursue and never overtake. Granted. But isn't the pursuit of a high ambition the noblest thing in life? Are not ideals the salvation of the world? Is not woman the pure being that she is merely and only because of her capacity for faith, even in delusions? To conclude, - for there must be an end to all things, - we would suggest to our readers that to be tied down to one's subject is a proof of a mathematical mind, - according...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENTENTIAE VERBAQUE NON BENE CONJUNCTA. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

...give her pure love back...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT REST. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

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