Word: plaining
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sing at a concert in Salem some time in January, and have in view concerts at Brookline, Jamaica Plain, New Bedford, and Boston, besides the regular February and June concerts with the Pierian Sodality...
...agree with you? - but it would be hard, and more, for you to show that this experience differs in any marked degree from that which the comparatively illiterate can and do obtain as well without ever stepping within the portals of a college. It is not yet sufficiently plain to us, furthermore, that nearly all our good political leaders have been scholars, and almost all the bad have not. On the contrary, it has been our impression that so nearly have all the statesmen or would-be statesmen, both good and bad, who have yet attained any note in this...
Along the plain our muskets bright...
Their solid ranks passed o'er the plain...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...