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Word: shoes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

...spring the frequent puddle tarnishes the well-blacked shoe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: IN THE SPRING. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...probable that a Snow Shoe Club will be formed this winter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

...dear boy, are you hurt? Let me - ' And she had her scissors out and ripped the string up in a jiffy. The shoe came off; and there was that cigarette stub...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTHING BUT SMOKE. | 6/15/1877 | See Source »

...disagreeable people, which I am not rich enough to put into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to do so. The plan is very simple. All you need is a large house, a steep staircase, and a pair of hobnailed shoes. The house is a sort of decoy. You invite the man that you don't like to dine with you, or inveigle him into your power in some other way. When he comes to the house, he is led through a suite of elegant apartments decorated with paintings of the "Fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTRACISM AND OTHER THINGS. | 6/16/1876 | See Source »

...never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom of the gig. The sun is very hot and the road is dusty. (I anathematize Jenkins for advising me to come to Norway.) The more I pull on the reins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

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