Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...experience with his pig was, that when he would drive him to Cork, the pig was determined to take the road to Limerick; and only when his master urged him on, and told him he had chosen the shortest route after all, did the obstinate beast turn himself and take the other road...
Sure, on jollity's chosen ground...
...College to supply it. Must one be compelled to say, "Have you seen the man who makes my fire, blacks my boots, brings up the water, steals the coal, upsets the inkbottle, and fuddles himself before 12 M.?" No; it is too much. Let some distinctive name be chosen at once, and, whatever be its origin, be it Greek, Latin, French, German, Anglo-Saxon, or a hybrid, let it, Oh, in the name of justice, let it be opprobrious...