Word: spare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...warriors. In consequence of this little historical episode, a small stone called Plymouth Rock has obtained some celebrity, and is the foundation on which the Puritanical inhabitants of this little town build their hopes of prosperity in this world and salvation in that which is to come. I shall spare you all this, and merely sketch the experiences of a small party of the unpredestinated, who invaded the hallowed precincts of orthodox doctrine for purposes other than those of historical research or religious study...
...show for second crews was rather poor, the Juniors rowing in a shell against the Sophomores in a barge with coxswain, giving the latter one minute's allowance. The issue proved that this was none too much, the Juniors winning by a long distance, with a few seconds to spare...
There is a druggist's assistant, spectacled, spying, and spare...
That in order to spare...
...coming is as certain as that of a financial panic, rather more frequent, and, in its way, almost as disastrous; but, though his end is often pitiable, he enjoys, for a time at least, the rewards and flatteries due to genius real or supposed. The papers have always a spare column for his productions, and a well-trained band of reporters and reviewers to invent, or, if needs be, discover, his antecedents; while the reading public lavishes upon him that superfluous enthusiasm which friends or lovers do not absorb, and it is long odds that he gives his name...