Word: worded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...know what your beau's pretty horse's name is," said a little fellow to his sister, Saturday morning. "It's 'Damye.'" "Hush, Eddie, that's a naughty word." "Well, I don't care; that's his name, 'cos last night I heard him say, outside the fence, 'Whoa, Damye...
...invented the nomenclature, is not clearly known. About the Discursive only is there no doubt. The originator was Paleontologus. This man, as his name denotes, was a Greek. He came to England, and adopted it as his paternal land, but could never master the language. There was one word which offered a special difficulty. He could never pronounce Niagara, like other people, but called it to the last Ni-a-ga-ra. However, he is best known as the inventor and representative of the Discursive Faculty, and used often to verify the verses...
Hard by the pump. Till then, no word of this...
Give me a word of comfort...
...between teams from the Harvard Lacrosse Club and the Union Athletic Club, the Unions won easily in two straight heats, defeating their opponents almost as soon as the word "Heave" was given. It is, however, but just to the Lacrosse Club Team to state that they had been invited to pull against an inexperienced four, like themselves, to be chosen from the Union Lacrosse Club; and they were very much surprised to find, on appearing for the pull, that they were pitted against a practised Team, and one much heavier than their own, selected from the Union Athletic Club, instead...