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Word: sped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Alas! the time too quickly sped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1. WAR ECHOES. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...blowing from the northeast. Bertha looked back several times and waved her handkerchief at me. I took off my hat and swung it in response; but I saw her face only through my tears. You see that dream had made me weak and nervous. Farther and farther away sped the yacht, till the sail was a dim white patch on the horizon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DREAM AND A REALITY. | 12/21/1880 | See Source »

...shadows; he tried to draw his knife, but my sharp teeth met in his arm. Hark! A short yelping bark, a snapping of bright teeth, and a grinding sound, and there is nothing but a dark red stain on the fair white snow. Hu-u-u-u! how we sped along under the bright, cruel stars, to the merry, long-drawn notes, while the poor frightened peasant put another bar on his flimsy door and shiveringly murmured, "Les loups-garous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NIGHTMARE. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

Reminds me of the days forever sped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAMBRIDGE SOCIETY. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...till the hour has sped...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

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