Word: spun
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Bright the hopes that I have spun...
...Instead of brief, simple, terse statements, easily grasped and understood, we have attempts at profound, high-sounding expositions, whose object is to exhibit the learning of the author or utterer, rather than to teach the reader or hearer. Trite sayings, which might be found endurable when succinctly stated, are spun out into a labyrinth of empty phrases, and shallow ideas are harped upon through infinite paragraphs, to give them an importance which they do not deserve...
Another, too, what time she busy spun...