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Word: skies (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...looked at the old skipper. He shaded his shaggy eyebrows with a weather-beaten hand, and gazed alternately at sky and sea. "Ef I owned that boat I 'd take her round to the shelter o' the cove in a minit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...watched the ever-roughening sea several minutes in silence. The pier was trembling beneath my feet, and I found it hard to stand upright against the fresh, strong wind. I had never seen such sworls of spray before, nor such a foreboding sky, - a long oblique strip of blackness, like a pall, with ragged edges dipping to the very sea. Then I turned and slowly walked up the path to the little brown house, where the tall elms were swaying madly to and fro. A bright face welcomed me from the window. It was the little granddaughter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

Under a midnight sky; it fears to pass...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EAGLE LAKE, MAINE. | 10/14/1881 | See Source »

...hazy sky that bathes around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SEA VIEW. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

Wing its way above the sky...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE." | 6/3/1881 | See Source »

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