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Word: buttonless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WAITERS. | 9/27/1878 | See Source »

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