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Word: vastness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Volumed, and vast, and rolling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BURNING OF STOUGHTON. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...trireme, and hearken to the music of the flute-playing Germani, and Fredricus is moved as to his heart with love, but Neptune, growing angry at Venus's having it all her own way, calls the winds. And they plough up the deep from its lowest bottom, and roll vast billows to the shores, and a steep mountain of water follows the well-built trireme, and Fredricus and Mary Ann are smitten with a terrible sensation. (In English, they are sea-sick...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FREDRICUS VAN RASSELAS LIVINGSTON. | 4/18/1879 | See Source »

Until the whole is one vast copper grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...exertions, they might hope to obtain scholarships. They understand that the sum allowed for their education must be reduced to the lowest figures, and they are disheartened at finding that they have no chance of winning those tangible rewards which serve to incite other students, and without which the vast majority of mankind would cease from exertion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCHOLARSHIPS. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...pitying accents and sympathetic glances of my friends, thought myself very well off. I was warned that there were two societies in the entry, but as one was aesthetic and the other anti-atheistic, I concluded I could stand it if they could. I did n't know the vast resources of the human mind when musical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIBULATIONS. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

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