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Word: tell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...complaints. It is therefore to be wished that those who feel that their gall must be poured out should indeed pour it out, but should keep it at least three days for their own inspection before they submit it to public gaze. After that time their own judgment will tell them what to do with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...tell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HEN. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...tell you of his youthful flames...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD BEAU. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...going to abide in Vanity Fair four years. And the burden of books that was upon him grew lighter as he went on; and he sought for knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PILGRIM'S PROGRESS. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...might distinguish, too, the voice of Mr. F-lds attempting to tell a little anecdote : "When I was in London, I breakfasted with Charles Dickens, and he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

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