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Word: rain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...tedious interval between breakfast and the foot-race was passed by the crowd around the hotel doors in a languid discussion of "rain or no rain," and in making a few bets, just to spite the goddess of strict morality, who was said to rule the day and forbid pool-selling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REGATTA. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

...rain beats down in torrents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WILD HUNTSMAN. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

...book about while walking through the yard, under penalty of suspension. Besides, to avoid all ambiguity as to the respectful attitude of the students toward the officers of government, it is recommended that the old rule forbidding any undergraduate to wear his hat in the yard unless it rain or snow, or he have both hands full, be revived and stoutly enforced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...though rain and storm the clouds were warning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONADNOCK. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

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