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Word: bullet (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR IN LOGIC TO MR. H. By what method of reasoning do you infer that a bullet is hot after it strikes a target? - MR. H. By picking it up, sir. - Yale Record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

...places Putnam's Hill was the most interesting. Here was the spot where Putnam galloped down the church steps at full speed, shaking his fist at the British and receiving, in exchange of compliment, a bullet through his hat; and here, I thought, "the old meeting-house, before which the Americans awaited the charge of the British," must have stood. They waited until the British got unpleasantly near, when Putnam and his men, concluding that "discretion was the better part of valor," rode away. To the right of the meeting-house are the stone steps down which Putnam rode...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEUTRAL GROUND. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

...MUSEUM. 1st Fresh. Why is the play like a bullet that has missed the mark...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/27/1874 | See Source »

...kind Quinobequin I sank, by Indian bullet, dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INDIAN SUMMER'S DREAM. | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...beaming bullet sending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CUPID'S MINISTERS. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

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