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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...Bicycle Club has within a year or two gained for itself the reputation of being among the live and wide-awake institutions of the college. We had always supposed that this reputation was well deserved, but in this respect we must have been mistaken, if the interest in the annual dinner to-morrow is any criterion. The committee has made arrangements for a dinner of at least twenty-five or thirty members; guests have been invited, several of whom have accepted; the literary festivities of the evening have been arranged by competent persons, and everything has been done to make...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania should think of accepting Mr. Seybert's fund, and undertaking the investigation, it is a decidedly noteworthy event. The action of the University brings into prominence two facts about Spiritualism; The first is that the belief in Spiritualism has become so wide-spread that men of the most intelligent class are not ashamed of publicly undertaking an investigation of the testimony for the existence of spirit-communications from another world. The second fact is that, in spite of the number of Spiritualists, the material for such an investigation is both scarce and unsatisfactory. This...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/11/1885 | See Source »

...That is the Turkish and Russian baths on the first floor. These are very large and complete, accommodations for thirty men being provided. Connected with them is a splendid cold water swimming tank. It is the finest thing in the whole building, and is 70 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 13 feet deep at the shallowest point...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/31/1885 | See Source »

That, when they commence senior sophisters, they shall have the further addition of buttons and frogs to the cuff of their coat, and shall also have black gowns with a wide sleeve, -the mode to be determined by the corporation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/26/1885 | See Source »

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