Word: wining
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...upon him grew lighter as he went on; and he sought for knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often up the hill Difficulty, bristling with unfavorable conditions, but he never reached its summit; for, ere he had passed four years with his chosen band of Vanity Fair, the rulers of that...
Room in Ecstasy Hall. A free-lunch counter furnished with cigars and wine; four or five girls and two or three men in easy-chairs, smoking and drinking; MISS CARBUNCLE, Instructress, at a desk...
Till it foams like a beaker of frothing wine...
...heard something said, as by a calm, gentle, trusting voice; and I noticed that Dick recognized the voice. "My mother," said he. We listened: "Yes, Dick is a dear boy; he never touches a drop of wine." Dick looked a little uneasy, and laid down the glass of champagne he had been drinking. The rest of us felt a trifle uncomfortable, not knowing what might be coming. "He promised me he would n't, and he has never broken his word." Dick's face turned very red. "But he does n't like to offend his friends at college...
COLLEGE statistics from the Lasell Seminary at Auburndale: "Twenty-nine wine-colored dresses; twenty-two blue sacques...