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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...room, far from sight or hearing of any human being, I tried to consider calmly the terrible problem. But I could arrive at no satisfactory result. Here were the facts - the vision which had showed me my friend's murderer, and Mr. Edmund Austen, brother of the young woman - who was my plighted wife. Ah, what a deep and bitter tragedy was expressed in those few words! How could I account for these things except through supernatural causes? How could I account for supernatural causes? I had not been trained to believe in so startling spiritual manifestations as these. They...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A BIRD OF THE AIR. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...earth; we therefore sent word to Minus Infinity that in seven hundred years would happen the destruction of the world. But they, forgetting to transpose our system of time to theirs, announced that the end of the world would happen near the end of the 19th century. An old woman who happened to be there carried the news back to earth, where it created some stir at the time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT INFINITY. | 5/19/1881 | See Source »

...silence was broken by the appearance of a small row-boat containing two people. One was a young man dressed in a comfortable-looking yachting costume, very much browned, however, by exposure to a New Hampshire sun; the other was a young woman dressed in much the same manner, except so far as the distinguishing marks of female attire went, with a very jaunty and coquettish hat set atop of a cluster of very bewitching brown curls. He was rowing rather leisurely toward the little white beach - if such it may be called - that bordered the inlet whither they...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHAPTER III. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

PARK THEATRE. - 8 P. M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. For the rest of this week, the Union Square Company in "Felicia, or Woman's Love." Next week, the same company in "The Danicheffs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE THEATRES. | 5/6/1881 | See Source »

...light and life and woman's love...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUB NOCTEM. | 4/22/1881 | See Source »

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