Word: strucke
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...handle and entered. The door of the room was open, and within she was sitting, reading intently. I did not interrupt her, but leaned with folded arms against the door and watched her. From my position I could see merely her side face. The clock on the mantelpiece struck the hour, but she stirred not. I wished to see the book she was reading. I speculated as to what it was. I felt that I must see her face, must see the book. I made a movement to change my position. She must have heard me, for she started, looked...
...mistress in my fancy, and called her Belinda. Up to the present time I have written seventy-six poems to this fair one, in which I have traced all the incidents of an imaginary courtship. The first describes our meeting; we did not know each other, and I was struck with Cupid's dart at the outset. It begins thus...
...struck deep: the old scar burns...
...faces to copy. Suddenly she asked me, jokingly, "Why won't you come in and sit for us, Mr. Milburn ? We will pay you twenty-five cents an hour, and your car-fare, and you will have the pleasure of being looked at, admiringly, by a dozen girls." This struck me as quite the idea; so I agreed to go in and sit for their class three afternoons of a week, for two hours each...
...hatless man who had been struck...