Word: mother
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...father's name used to be Thomas O'Donohue. I don't know what it is now. He is a man of leisure, and at present boards at the granite building near the Medical School. My mother's name was Bridget before her marriage, and is still, I think. They were married...
...mother remarked in Mr. Faye...
...think that the taste for this amusement must be cultivated, and somebody else will have to cultivate mine considerably before I again allow it to make of me a walking clothes-line and unabridged dictionary of profanity combined. Simple Simon was a young Solomon when he chose his mother's pail for his fish-pond. The rest of my visit was more pleasantly devoted to the hammock, the pretty daughter, and the sketch of a new Inferno in which old Izaak Walton is to figure conspicuously...
Perhaps her lynx-eyed mother hath...
...conversation, and soon found that I had it painfully my own way. I consoled myself, however, with the thought that, by such uninterrupted opportunity of speech as I seemed destined to have during the evening, I should soon, by this practice, acquire that refined and intelligent use of the mother-tongue which, according to the most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics. The biggest stones that I could...