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Word: painful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Ferdy "hitted 'er up" across the fences, and was soon at the head of the line, and the "whipper in" crying to him not to go so blankety fast or he'll tire out the crowd. As they run up the street Ferdy begins to have, oh, such a pain in his side, and you can hear his heart go thumpety-thump against his ribs. It's a sad day for this slender twig of the Van Rasselas stock. At last, after miles of streets and fields (so it seemed to Ferdy), they come to a wire fence with jagged...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOFUL TALE OF FERDINAND VAN RASSELAS. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...suffering hath vanished; like frost hath gone all pain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GYPSY GIRL. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...expectantly to the day when the fair sex should exclude men from every post of honor and responsibility. "Kai yap" (she went on), "are not wives gifted with an extraordinary faculty of extracting secrets from their husbands?" (At this point some gentleman in the audience murmured, as if in pain, "Alas! yes!") "Finally, let us look to the future for the consummation of all our hopes, but above all, let us remember that men are inferior animals...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT AT WELLESLEY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...Pain, hate, shame, wrong, and all life's darkest things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

...soul from passionate distrust and pain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 5/2/1879 | See Source »

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