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Word: speckless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather a noble head, white hair and beard, eyes frosty blue, voice alternately brusque or urbane, and he walked always in a silvery gray suit the hue of his cigar ashes. Best seen, he was in the orderly disorder of his speckless, spotless study of a Winter's morning, back to a crackling blaze in the white marble fireplace, drinking strong coffee, smoking a long black cigar and laying down the philological law. "Then," said a devotee, "the old man was sublime...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRAMMARIAN'S FUNERAL | 10/3/1941 | See Source »

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