Word: twixt
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Then, 'twixt this splendor of the daylight's death...
...during the mid-years, and the night of the German. My heart was set on attending, but conscience would give me no peace, filling my thoughts with the next day's examinations. Hence there arose that time-honored wrangle 'twixt Duty and Inclination, in which Duty was driven from the field, for Miss Ravissante had firmly convinced me, in the irresistible logic of beauty and artful superlatives, that I was nothing less than indispensable to her enjoyment of the evening, and thus, you know, my going was really a deed of mercy...
Half the hour, - 'twixt eight and nine...
...questioning the difference 'twixt a "sequence" and a "flush...
...circumstance make war 'twixt thee...