Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...nose down perfectly cold every time; but I could n't say much for the rest of the features. One young lady had written underneath the sentimental and foolish pictures, "Mt. Desert - Before and After!" I challenged her to try it next summer, and was having a very pleasant talk, when the artist suddenly remarked, "Mr. Milburn, we will take you now as Hercules." This was too much! It was too sarcastic a reference to my small size. I claimed my twenty-five cents and departed. The next day, I received a complete set of the pictures, appropriately labelled...
...take a pipe and talk it over...
...Sacramento, San Francisco! If zey talk less, zey would play better," said a gentleman with a wreath, which made him look most uncomfortable, without at all taking the place of a beaver as a head covering...
...correct ki-bosh, you know, to talk so much, - aw, - I have four knaves," put in the hero of Zutphen...
Clear blue eyes, shimmering golden hair, a perfect Marguerite. How trustful and confiding she was! We used to talk poetry by the hour, and once, as I ventured like a true knight to claim the winsome lady's glove, she blushed, - a blush like the soft pink on the petals of an apple-blossom, - and shook her head; but as she passed me that night in the corridor, she dropped this little glove into my hand, and - well - she went away the next day, and -" He told me once, by the way, that she married a wealthy pork-packer...