Word: worn
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...matter in which our great metropolitan journals need to look to themselves. It is indeed a fault which is exceedingly prevalent in the highest class of our newspapers. I refer to the continual use of certain words and phrases, perhaps rather expressive originally, but which have been fairly worn out by indiscriminate and excessive use on all possible occasions...
...degree, their effect. If an item of intelligence is worth mentioning at all (and, by the way, the fact of such worthiness should be more fully established than is generally the case), it deserves a distinct and appropriate description, and not one made up of cast-off metaphors and worn-out expressions that have already served to describe similar occasions, time out of mind...
...nose I have worn from my childhood...
...faded and worn...
...Scotch cassimere of a light gray color, with blue trimmings. The shirt is to be open before, like a coat; the sleeves without cuffs, but trimmed with blue at the wrists. The "Y" is to be wrought in blue silk on the breast. Over this is to be worn a loose roundabout without trimmings. The belt is blue and wrought. Knee-breeches are to be discarded, and the breeches will reach to the ankles and button over the shoes. A blue cord down the legs is the trimming. The shoes will be white." The Nine are reported to be working...