Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Good heavens!" I answered in exasperation, "I have n't time to explain. Mr. Smilin, you are a proficient in Pretty Pol. Econ. Can you not tell me what sort of a garment suits best a very unproductive consumer...
...place to tell you," she answered...
...will never tell any one!" she exclaimed with emphasis. "He wants...
...exclaimed, frightened and vexed, "I did n't tell...
...Well, I'll tell you," replied the Lamprey, picking up the papers that had fallen from his sleeve to the floor. "The Rev. Dr. Bonfire Burnham was just in to see me, and he told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction. He pointed his eye right at me and said, 'Lamprey, with grief I have noticed in the last two issues of your little publication that your front cover, hitherto your redeeming feature, Lamprey, has displayed in its printed matter a latitude most unprecedented, and an obliquity never before attempted...