Word: thinness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Foiner thin any of Faither Mallory...
...uncertainty as to where I'd be next stole over me. My trusty steed showed violent symptoms of St. Vitus's Dance. The floor began to heave and billow about. The pillars and railing played at kaleidoscope. My vision grew dim. I clutched the handles till they grew thin under my grasp. I threw my whole soul into that one moment. It was too much for the machine. It veered both ways at the same time, then concluded to retreat, which it did with remarkable celerity. But I had made all my arrangements for going ahead, and found it difficult...
...that is too thin...
...been in Cambridge for some time, and had been present at several tea-drinkings and other wild gayeties of this dissipated town. To be sure, she had caused her Aunt Prudence no little uneasiness on several occasions, and, as Miss Meeker herself expressed it, had actually made her grow thin (an operation which would seem to a casual observer very difficult of accomplishment...
...middle of an open space in the aforesaid settlement, there stood a thin, gaunt specimen of mankind, holding in his hand a weather-beaten hunting-case watch, whose virtues he was expounding thus: "My friends, I would call your attention to this elegant silver watch; but before asking for a bid I will give you a short history of its career, and show you some of its good points, so that you may see that you have a veritable treasure in your midst. In the first place, let me tell you that this beautiful timepiece was ordered by Lord Gladstone...