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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...baby was calming down again, we would come to another post and have to surrender another coupon and move back to the palace-car, I, of course, moving the old lady, bab and baggage, every time. By and by we came to a corner, and on going round it saw a calf on the track. It did not move at our approach, but only stared and continued to graze coolly on the rails and sleepers. The train came to a stop, which was not very hard, considering its rate. Then the conductor and Bill and the fireman spent an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOUTHERN LIGHTNING EXPRESS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

...saw he sign of human strife or weeping...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEET OF THE WINDS. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...Irishman who was engaged to cut ice from a pond, when handed a cross-cut saw to commence operation with, pulled out a penny, and, turning to his comrade, exclaimed, "Now, Pat, fair play; head or tail, who goes below." - Mirror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...Italy have left behind them cannot fail to arouse wondering thoughts of the minds which could conceive such forms, and of the thought which must have brought them into being. The splendid limbs of the marble relics of the ancients will carry you back to the days when men saw such limbs at every turn. The striking realism of the French pictures of the present day will remind you of hundreds of things which indolence will permit you neither to think for yourself, nor to dig out of the endless pages of a stupid book...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PICTURES AND SO FORTH. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

...much he saw, his loving eye far reaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MEET OF THE WINDS. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

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