Word: riches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...life shall be rich with the treasure...
...edition of Worcester's Dictionary is especially rich in Old English and Chaucerian words, the publishers having received much valuable assistance from Professor Child...
DEAR FRIEND, - The charms of my University life exceed even my fondest anticipations. Society here is intense. Cambridge is so rich in intellectual life, in local color, that one's faculties are kept in constant tension. I feel that I am improving very fast under these stimulating influences. The instructors are all men of tone. Some of them are inclined to talk upon matters not connected with the recitation, but they are always interesting. I am delighted to be able to tell you that Harvard has been grossly misrepresented by the public press. The students do not even stare...
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After them came a caravan of gorgeously caparisoned mules, dragging rich cages behind them In these were very rare specimens, collected, regardless of expense, from all quarters of the globe, and not half so savage as they ought to have been. Several prominent Freshman instructors were said to be in the cage with the foxes and wolves, but the reporter failed to wholly recognize them. They so resembled the real animals that their identification was rendered especially difficult...