Word: staring
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...from the stare of the world by the rough-clad sentinel mountain...
...knocked at a door on the ground-floor of Hollis. No answer. Knocked again. I heard light steps coming toward me; the door opened, and there stood a white figure in full evening dress, so to speak, gazing at me with a vacant stare...
...improvement, for he is near-sighted, cross-eyed, and, according to Dr. Jeffries, color-blind. I don't elect Chemistry; in fact, I know so little about it that at the dinner-table, when the Freshman who has heard Cook's lectures asks me to "approximate the H2O," I stare stupidly at him, and cannot understand that he wishes me to pass him the water...
...allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare, and stare. The provincial and antiquated gotten is paraded forth in all its whilom beauty and usefulness by the simple and guileless Westerner, while the meek and humble it is made to pay a much heavier part than it was ever intended...
Instead of simply stare...