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Word: sofas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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This company must be intending to leave the legitimate drama for pantomime, for nearly every article turns into something else, - generally into a bed. The fascinating columbine, Modjeska, sits during the daytime on a sofa which, with a wave of her wand, turns into a four-poster, while the noted harlequin, Manager H. H. Sargent, with a blow of his sword, turns some one of his numerous nickel-plated conveniences into a trundle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODJESKA'S PALACE CAR. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...sitting up for the first time, and in as much as I can't smoke and won't read, because it makes my head spin so confoundedly, the long, dull hours of the afternoon have dragged very wearily. I got my sofa moved to the window, where I had a prospect down the Yard. But as an all-day spectacle the Yard is not a success. I'm going home to-morrow to convalesce, and I rejoice, meanwhile, to watch the hurrying to recitation of those whom the rainy weather has not induced to cut. Presently this little bustle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PEGASUS IN A SICK-ROOM. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...down and decipher the old scrap, a la Champollion. Here's a convenient tomb for a sofa. Great gad! think of sitting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD COLLEGE. | 6/23/1876 | See Source »

...chewed up my sofa for good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAVE CANEM. | 3/24/1876 | See Source »

Softly they approached the sofa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSCULATION. | 5/8/1874 | See Source »

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