Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cincinnati Enquirer thinks that the criticisms of the Yale News in regard to our having so much general matter, was "wrote sarkastic...
...been recently ascertained that Solomon had just got through his semi-annuals when he wrote, "Much study is a weariness of the flesh." "The grinders cease, because they...
...Grant wrote yesterday to Senator Miller of New York asking him to withdraw his name from the bill introduced in the senate by Mr. Miller incorporating the Nicaraguan Canal...
...then what a luxury it was to sit and muse over his adored! He wrote a dissertation on whether a rose (he meant his Rose) by any other name would have been as sweet. He decided not, in case the other name were Bridget or Maria. One thing troubled him not a little: though he could recall separately every one of the features of his captivatress, - including her delightful little retrousse nose (vulgar and ignorant people spoke of it as a "pug"), - he could not, for the life of him, picture her face as a whole. One day, however, Snifkins...
...marched up to the table once more, passing successfully the Cerberus with the pile of papers, who could find no flaw in my passport this time. The next man was the Rector, who asked me my name and nationality, having apparently forgotten my previous visit to him, and wrote them into their appropriate places in a large sheet before him, which I afterwards found was a sort of testimonial that I, "vir juvenis ornatissimus," &c., had entered the University and was enrolled among its students. No. 3 asked me the same questions and a choice lot of new ones beside...