Word: wonderful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...side sat his daughter, Tue Swe. No wonder the villagers were puzzled by this girl; for she seemed of a different kind from them. She was very small in stature, and slight though elegant in form; her hands and feet were shorter and much narrower than those of the ordinary ape. Her features were well formed, without that ruggedness of outline so common in the Apeland females...
...five flights. Claret lemonade was forthwith ordered; the boy left me alone with my straws, and I reflected over my first German. I had been playing tennis all the morning, and reading back volumes of the Lampoon to some young ladies on the piazza all the afternoon, - no wonder I had made so many blunders in the evening...
...Hill! What a brilliantly beautiful landscape lay before us! I do not wonder at people who go into ecstasies over it. It is not grand mountain scenery, but it is the perfection of natural beauty. But that afternoon, lying there on the topmost rock, with all that fair lake, with its hundreds of islands and inlets, stretched like a map before me, I could drink in none of the peacefulness of the scene. For I saw again that look upon Edmund Austen's face - that look that I have seen so often since; the look I cannot at all understand...
...RIFLE Association has been started at Princeton. We wonder what has become of our Gun Club...
Malaria.Fitz Clarence arrived at Princeton with a light heart and thirteen trunks. Not even the sight of several dozen coffins piled up at the station awaiting shipment could dampen his enthusiasm. He walked briskly up the principal street, and scanned with wonder the long lines of undertakers' shops and brilliant drug-stores that met his eye on every side. A forest of doctors' signs shaded the street and kept off the heat of the sun, while the air was redolent with the pungent odors of the billowy canal...