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Word: sherbet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Maraschino Sherbet, Cigarettes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dinner of the Board of Directors of the H. D. A. | 5/14/1885 | See Source »

...Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere of perfect repose. One involuntarily turned to look for the black slave with the sherbet, and through the open casement half expected to see the dancing wavelets of the Golden Horn, dotted with many a gay caique." I think he said caique; he may have said cacique. "But the course of true love never did run smooth, and so we parted." Her father was a Southern fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LOVER'S FRIEND. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

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