Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...none but a freshman would be so ignorant of Rhetoric as to write "to deliberately falsify," and none but a freshman would be guilty of such bombastic grandiloquence as obounds in this letter. He may yet learn, when he studies Rhetoric, the best writer is he who tells "a cold, dry fact" in an interesting way. If after leaving college he should try newspaper work, be might, if he had acquired some common-sense by that time, learn that no large newspaper hires "raving maniacs," or prints stories written up "with little or no foundation in fact." After years...
...afforded a very precarious living, and these solitary miners became very dangerous members of society. Very few Indians were hired by the miners. The Brooks party of Eastermens on the way to the mining districts, found little trouble from the Indians or settlers until they reached the Sierras. They tell of entertainments given by the wives and daughters of the miners at the Mormon diggings, which made a very pleasant ending to a day of hard labor. The men, it is said, sometimes took a little too much liquor. They had many unpleasant experiences with "horse theif" Indians and robbers...
...size of the libraries. And yet the German student lives and learns and becomes the famous philologist, or the famous scientist, whose works are kept in our American libraries at the disposal of everybody. He knows and cares for nothing better, and it were cruel indeed to tell him how much more favored we Americans are. "Where ignorance is bliss...
When men want a few specially fine cigars they go to HUBBARD, THE CAMBRIDGE APOTHECARY, and tell him so. He then sells them some. He also has for sale excellent banjo strings, and violin strings and bridges for those melodious instruments. He would recommend to those "Upon whose chins hath scarce appeared the uncertain prophecy of a beard," that they buy of him an Engstrom razor, or one of those made by LeCoultre. They are of the finest steel and keenest edge...
When men want a few specially fine cigars they go to HUBBARD, THE CAMBRIDGE APOTHECARY, and tell him so. He then sells them some. He also has for sale excellent banjo strings, and violin strings and bridges for those melodious instruments. He would recommend to those "Upon whose chins hath scarce appeared the uncertain prophecy of a beard," that they buy of him an Engstrom razor, or one of those made by LeCoultre. They are of the finest steel and keenest edge...