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Word: saws (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...came the redcoats. Grandsir saw an officer, whose coat

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRANDSIR PEAVY. | 6/18/1875 | See Source »

APROPOS to the "Centennial," the Boston Post gives us "Veni, vidi, vici, - I came, I saw, I Concord...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

When last in New York I saw Miss Blayre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MISS BLAYRE'S BENEFIT. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...hear from Exeter that at a fair held there some time since, the prize of a saw-horse to be presented to the laziest individual in town was secured, through the exertions of the Academy students, for their distinguished Professor of Mathematics; also that the Academy ball-grounds have been extended; and that the Faculty intend (less vivid future) to establish "Amusement Rooms," where the students may enjoy the privileges of a reading-room, billiard parlors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

...looking about the room; then he took his cigar out of his mouth and spat upon the floor; then, having replaced the stump, he staggered down the whole length of the table, and lurched into a chair at the other end of the room; and then, at last, he saw fit to take off his hat, which he threw to a table near him. Having taken his seat, he stared at the company for a while, expectorated a second time, and finally, calling the waiter, remarked "Brandy!" in a voice whose twang rivalled that of the most decrepit old piano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES ABROAD. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

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