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Word: rocked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...resting on a mossy rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LANGUEDOC. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

SOME excitement has been caused among the Yale students by an assault made upon J. W. Keller, one of the editors of the Yale News, on Thursday, by Robert S. Rodman, a Senior, of Rock Island, Ill. Rodman felt aggrieved at an article published in the News which seemed to him to reflect upon himself. A rough-and-tumble fight followed Rodman's blow at Keller, and the latter got so much the better of his antagonist that he is about the street, while Rodman is confined to his room...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...whose looks belie his nature. And now they're off! Huzza! a brave start. With such science on board, they scarce can fail to reach the bottom safely. Alas! "the best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley," and this party ganged the same way. An unfortunate rock intervenes, and they separate, - the gallant leader measured the shortest distance between the sled and a neighboring tree; the youthful prodigy described the arc of a great circle and landed in a snow-bank; the large gentleman remained stationary, remarking, " This rock shall fly from its firm base as soon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COAST OF THE SEASON. | 2/21/1879 | See Source »

...Seems to rock me like a boat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Muskeeters! | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

Like David's altar on Moriah's rock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

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