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Word: slighted (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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Being under the necessity of purchasing some coal one day, I chanced to ask him, with a slight tinge of sarcasm in my voice, how much coal he had used this winter. He replied, "I have only about half a ton left." Some time after I happened to see one of those little bills with which we are all more or less acquainted; from this I learned that he was indebted to a coal-merchant for just the above-mentioned amount, purchased at the beginning of the year. I then fully understood the import of his answer. He evinced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR GUESTS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...Some slight formalities...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY QUEST. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...number of Volume II. of the Vassar Miscellany. We scarcely know which article is the more racy and readable, - the political essay on "The Tendency to Centralization of the Government of the United States," or the moral reflections "About Jonahs." Our inability to understand the latter is only a slight drawback to our enjoyment of it, and is more than compensated when we consider how wise she who wrote it must have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 2/7/1873 | See Source »

...slight stream rests at foot o' the crag...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AGONY: | 1/24/1873 | See Source »

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