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Word: thickness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Where bend the thick-grown alders, and the brook...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSSIBLE HISTORY. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...Just a thick blue canopy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THROUGH A VEIL. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...smell of sulphur, a thick smoke, and then a supernatural being appears...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPECTRE DEGREE. | 12/10/1880 | See Source »

...next subject was a Senior who had been clubbed to death, while peaceably returning from a literary dinner, by a policeman. The surgeons at once began to examine his brain. After sawing into the skull for more than half an hour, they were unable to reach the cerebrum. So thick was the cranium that the operators began to despair of finding any brain at all, and were about to relinquish their attempts, when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWO SURGICAL OPERATIONS. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

...Seniors stood thick, full of learning and cheer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMENT OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA. | 3/5/1880 | See Source »

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