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Word: codfish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...three seats behind ours, i. e., directly in front of me, there was the largest, most luminous, and withal the most ravishing pair of dark-blue eyes that were ever given a girl to do mischief with. When I say large eyes, I don't mean your overgrown, beetling, codfish eyes; nothing of the sort; for though these were large, they were deep-set and full of dreamy meditation and potential merriment, and bespoke a deal of misery in store for some poor fellow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "FRONTI NULLA FIDES." | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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