Word: sharked
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit; for, ere he had passed four years with his chosen band of Vanity Fair, the rulers of that mart, who call themselves wise men, chased him away. And Lighthead left that pleasant...