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Word: tears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...stock. At last, after miles of streets and fields (so it seemed to Ferdy), they come to a wire fence with jagged points along the top, about three feet high. Ferdy tries to jump it, but his strength gives out and he sits on the top wire; the points tear his knickerbockers and pierce his epidermis, and Ferdy concludes it hurts much more than when he sat on a bent...

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

...doth bear, Full many a dollar have they, bright and pure and clean, Which neither the Ball Club nor the Boat Club nor the Junior Prom. Com. nor the Courant nor the Record nor the Lit. nor the News nor anything under heaven yet discovered, can from their pockets tear. - Courant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...throbbings of the heart, the mourner's tear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAY OF THE WORLD. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

Scarce longer than a tear, or flitting smile...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STRAY LEAVES FROM A BOOK OF HOURS. | 5/16/1879 | See Source »

While thou wast mine alone, no power could tear...

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

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