Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...entered the sanctum simultaneously through different doors, and a bright blush suffused the tear-stained cheek of the maiden as she saw a frill of "Hamburg edging" peeping from under the modest coat-sleeve of the youth. He gave one look, and a long, convulsive shudder shook his manly frame as he perceived a shirt-button peeping from beneath the lace about her neck...
...following him (the way was narrow), with my eyes on the ground to keep the path, when suddenly he stopped short and wrenched my arm violently. Startled, I raised my eyes. He was trembling like an aspen and pointing ahead. I followed the direction of his finger. What I saw I shall never forget. There, directly in front of us, straight across the path, was an enormous figure, all white, with outstretched arms that seemed ready to clasp us in their embrace. I was never a believer in ghosts, but then I had never met one face to face before...
...frightened would but faintly express it. I was utterly unnerved. The impulse was to turn and fly. But a sense of shame held us still; we were two, and men; and besides, it was better to have the thing before our eyes than behind our backs. Ugh! I saw Jackson mechanically draw his revolver from his belt. I would have stopped him, but I could not : my hands and tongue were as if tied. He raised the pistol, aimed it with shaking hand, and fired. The smoke cleared away, and Jackson fell back on me, fainting. Oh, horrors! the bullet...
...when he saw how deloited I samed...
POOR Carl! He has made a very intelligible narrative, for the most part, till the time when he saw me, and declared me Stephen Maymore's murderer; and I had never seen Stephen May-more...