Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...friend Rossiter spends the latter part of these long winter evenings gazing silently into the fire. I never dared to ask him what shadows he saw there. But last evening he drew me to his side, and while we sat together in the ruddy ember gloom, he painted this picture...
...Canadian backwoods girl, who could wield gun and paddle as skilfully as her hunter brother, with whom she lived in the wilderness. When I first saw her, she was speeding a canoe across the wild river that ran in front of their cabin. The apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated...
...came to know her better, I found a peculiar charm in her which I never saw in other women, whom contact with the social world makes selfish. Here was a woman who, during the twenty years of her life, had met with no more than a score of human beings. Yet she possessed the germ of those pure inborn gifts which cultivation can mock, but never equal. She could analyze the beauty of forest scenery; but she criticised it intuitively, not by reason. She did not know that this was a rare gift. She was not conscious of her powers...
...saw a bevy of white-headed...
Soph. loq. - Well - hic - this is the blankest meanest language I - hic - ever saw. And - of - all - the blankity blank blank dictionaries this is the worst! hic - but guess the grammar's worse! Have n't been able to find a single word...