Word: reel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shade." Now, this is absurd, as absurd as the assertion in one of your journals that your Mr. Evarts "was too old for a senator," and that he "was too old to change his mind." Why, your new senator is Billy Evarts, Evarts, who used to reel off Adams's Latin Grammar at the Boston Latin School,-only a few years ago, and we are his contemporaries. I contend that these charges are libelous, both as against Mr. Evarts and the overseers. Still, there are younger alumni, and you can, if you see fit, in your next election, drop some...
...crimson handkerchief, and do not dislocate my elbows in walking, I don't see how she knew. "Been a-fishin'?" was her next remark. I said I had, and, to make conversation, produced my bass. She examined them critically, and announced that though "mighty mean little ones, they were reel bass, - acanthopterygious fish, of the genus perca, so called from their dark color...