Word: reel
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...differently life, as regards conversation, was arranged then from what it is now. In those times every one had a good deal to say, and had plenty of time to say it without interruption; but now, although we are just as talkative as our ancestors, we don't reel off our speech all at once, for, if we did, we should be called bores; but we break it up into short sentences, and our conversation becomes spicy. And so the popular novelist does n't allow his characters' tongues to run away with them, but gives his pages an interesting...