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Word: truce (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Peru has rejected the proposed truce and the conditions named by Chili...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 5/17/1882 | See Source »

...call a truce and end our strife's alarms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...word, you have the poem; for thought (that is, a concept) is entirely out of place in a work of the imagination.] There are other tables containing heroine's names, with appropriate rhymes; the list might be indefinitely extended: Mary, airy, fairy; Laura, saw her, adore her: Lucy, truce he, boozy; and so on, ad infinitum. It will also be noticed that one set of rhymes will frequently answer for several heroines; for instance, Dora, Cora, Flora, Leonora, and others. In addition to these tables, long lists of adjectives are furnished, - usually of a dyspeptic, graveyard-like sort, such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DE ARTE POETICA. | 10/15/1880 | See Source »

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