Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...either side it was particularly edifying. The question at issue seems hardly to have been touched upon at all with much seriousness. Indiscreetness, painful bad taste and ill-disguised intolerance would seem to have been the chief characteristies of the several articles discussing the question. Of the amenity and sweet reasonableness, such as we should hope to see in such a debate, there was apparently none. In view of this it can hardly be said that further discussion at present seems profitable. How many years, however, must pass before the public will have reached a proper frame of mind...
...which it was proposed to subject him. This consisted in attaching the new-comer's head downwards to a ladder, and then blowing tobacco smoke up his nose - an invention truly worthy of "Fox's Book of Martyrs." Vereschagin, at this proposition, opened his blue eyes and, with a sweet, quiet smile, observed, "Gentlemen, I have come here to learn painting, and with no intention of being tied to any ladder upside-down, so I give you notice that I have a revolver in my pocket, with which I shall blow out the brains of the first man who molests...
...Sweet memories of happy hours
...SWEET HOLMES![Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes has resigned the chair of anatomy at Harvard University...
...Sweet, plaintive tunes, that oft'times make...