Word: saws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...driving - never can remember when he gets to it. So, as we came up the road at a pretty sharp pace, for this was our last point, I heard Mary cry, "Left, Fred, left, or we'll pass it!" And he hauled the borses square round; and we behind saw the old sleigh go up on one runner slowly, and then down on its side amid a fountain of shrieks and screams...
This was all he said during the whole performance, but I never saw anybody enjoy anything as he did that...
...have only been there once," said he. "Then I saw Booth; but I had a guide, so I don't remember the way very well. You see," -growing confidential, to the great amusement of Jack, who can't ever keep his face straight, -"you see, they 've got an idea at home that I'm studying too hard, and when they saw in the paper (my grandmother takes the Weekly Transcript) that Janauschek was acting here, they thought it would be a good plan for me to go. So Uncle John and Aunt Hannah both...
...first piece, 'Shadow Fancies,' is passable; the next, 'Ballads,' a little better; Vestigia Nulla Retorsum,' awfully poor; 'Student Lamps,' just tolerable; Louis Adolphe Thiers,' good, yea, very good, in fact, the only good article we found; 'Hobbies,' insipid; 'My Friend Balbus,' worse; 'Summer,' worst, - the worst we ever saw. This will do. We do not know how highly cultured the Quarterly's readers may be, but if we may judge of their understandings by the articles written for them, we should say their amount of knowledge, individually, was about that of a four-year-old child...
...opened the door, and in I went, cane raised. The room was dark; I gave at random all the cuts of the sabre exercise, when, as the door opened wider, I saw that the room was empty, but the window open. I pointed...