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Word: quest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Alas, we were mistaken. On the evening of so-called Bloody Monday a party of sportive Sophomores, led by some powerful motive, such as the love of "roughing" or the desire for free beer, sallied forth in quest of the guileless Freshman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: RESPECTABILITY vs. ROWDYISM. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...leave to-day their sordid quest for gold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MEMORIAL VERSES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...cover can be turned back and the book rather familiarly used. The imposing libraries that impart an air of wonderful erudition to the regal house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this. Good little boys in story-books open valuable volumes in quest of traditional dollar-bills between the leaves, but many a volume is never opened or even taken from its shelf in some libraries. Cheap literature is not for such epicures as these; they must take their learning, as the poor, sick homeopathics do, in sugar-coated form. The binding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHEAP LITERATURE. | 12/4/1874 | See Source »

...Cambridge, the mind inevitably wanders from the printed page to catch the gorgeous hues of that almost tropical picture with which New England compensates her sons, once a year, for the dreary length of her inhospitable winter. Saturday sees nearly the whole college scattered through the adjoining country in quest of rural enjoyment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/24/1873 | See Source »

...sailing onward in our quest...

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

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