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Word: tale (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Princeton senior ball, held Thursday evening at Princeton, was a brilliant success. The Glee club sang a song entitled, "Listen to my tale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/11/1889 | See Source »

...Watson of Dean's" a tale of a Jersey town, and "Literary Sham" an excellent article on the semi literary and non-literary elements at college close the number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 12/3/1889 | See Source »

...Mission Legend" is the best story in this number. As the writer states, it is written entirely without regard to style or effect, and this same unpretentiousness lends a great charm to it. The tale is that of the love of an Indian princess for a Mission Father with its tragic and unexpected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 11/20/1889 | See Source »

...Malchen's Gnome," is a sort of a fairy-tale of the Black Forest. It is extremely original, but perhaps more interesting to children than to students...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Advocate. | 11/20/1889 | See Source »

...story the Mahabharata is interesting and consistent. As its name teils, it describes the greatest war of King Bharata, a war which was trivial both in its causes and its effects. The tale runs about as follows: King Bharata sees his end drawing near, and divides his kingdom amongst his sons and nephews. His eldest son, Udostheera, a man of spotless character, was dominated by the master passion of gambling. Udostheera lost all his property, his wealth, his lands and his kingdom, and finally he agrees to leave his kingdom and to live with his four brothers and his wife...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sir Edwin Arnold's Second Lecture. | 10/3/1889 | See Source »

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