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Word: twigs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1879-1879
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...blankety fast or he'll tire out the crowd. As they run up the street Ferdy begins to have, oh, such a pain in his side, and you can hear his heart go thumpety-thump against his ribs. It's a sad day for this slender twig of the Van Rasselas stock. At last, after miles of streets and fields (so it seemed to Ferdy), they come to a wire fence with jagged points along the top, about three feet high. Ferdy tries to jump it, but his strength gives out and he sits on the top wire; the points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOFUL TALE OF FERDINAND VAN RASSELAS. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...pointing to one of the maids, said, "My stars! twig her eye! what a beauty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

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