Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels, and feels deeply. Its interest...
...odor in the carriage, but the Doctor quickly explained that it was nothing but the odor of a strong dose his friend had been obliged to take to strengthen herself for the journey. All this time the lady, who was dressed in black and closely veiled, never said a word; and as soon as we were off I addressed her a few words, and finding she did not answer left her to herself, thinking perhaps she was too tired to converse...
...Dyer has charge of the pronunciation, to which especial attention is to be given; no one is better fitted than he to have charge of this important point. In accordance with his own practice, a will be pronounced as in eight; ???, as in the Spanish word deuda (both vowels sounded, but coalesced); v, as French u; ??? as ds (soft...
...obsolete word, meaning a fascinating fellow...
...there is one thing I hate more than another, - I say thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet...