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Word: suits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...regretted that Mr. Perry's lecture-hour is so inconvenient to many who would gladly attend, though a change might not suit those who can go now. It is hoped, however, that the lecturer will see whether some other hour and place would not be more acceptable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...this way it is hoped that everybody will be satisfied. I forgot to state that the price of the regulation suits is fixed at sixty dollars for the largest, fifty-five for the next, and so on. It has been suggested that a tall man who wishes to economize can do so by wearing the smallest suit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW SCHEME. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...learn from an advertisement in a Western exchange that "The Harvard suit, now worn by college students all over the country." consists in a "four-button, straight-cut, frock coat, made of either a very nobby cassimere, English worsted, or basket goods." No mention is made of any other garment. Well, we live and learn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...village gave me the coveted opportunity, and I and my suspicions of this antidote for care were awakened one morning at five A. M. Remembering that, according to old Izaak, a rosy dairy-maid was to refresh me at noon with new milk, I put on my white flannel suit with some care and started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance one yard. "Just three miles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PISCATORIAL. | 9/25/1879 | See Source »

...suit prove vain, - then...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SIR ROMEO. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

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