Word: tales
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tale as full of sham pretence...
Whispered each other many a tale...
Would tell to all her family round a tale...
...when he told some tale of wild pranks after a punch, when the royal upper-classmen had been served from a huge bowl by trembling Freshmen, their fags, dragged from warm beds to grace their lords' festivities, his eye sparkled and blazed with a youthful fire, and he seemed a boy again. With what glee did he tell of Harvard's one fire-engine, first at all fires (when perfectly convenient), drawn by a crowd of yelling students, and whose cold streams, when fires were less frequent and the student mind needed gentle relaxation, were often turned upon the windows...