Word: threw
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...appropriateness of the gift threw Jones completely off his balance, and I saw him part with his last pair, whereupon she departed, increased the number of children by two, again bathed her face in tears, and tried the same experiment on Brown...
...fear, because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair by the fire with no definite purpose in mind, but how long I sat thus I have no idea...