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Word: weird (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Like witches weird from nether glooms...

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

...faculty of sketching upon the page the pleasant characteristics of New England life, and the stories are the more interesting for the degree to which they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life, as vivid as one of Norton...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOK NOTICE. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

Weariness and weird alarm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ANACREONTIC. | 5/31/1878 | See Source »

...weird belfry's rhymes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHIMES OF LUCERNE. | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...said that in weird, strange shape...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DANISH LEGEND. | 6/25/1875 | See Source »

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