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Word: doughnuts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale News announces the following new books, which it says are not issued in the "Seaside Library." "Two Years Behind the Mast, or Life in a Barn." By Oscar Simpson. "Gully's Revenge, or a Tale of the Crossing." Author unknown. "The Drugged Doughnut, or Three Buckets of Blood." By Gasp Hard. "The Mad Butcher, or The Fate of a Yale Tutor." By the author of "Beautiful Snow." "The Dumb Singer or The Warped Tooth Brush." By Hic. Cough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BULLETIN. | 3/3/1882 | See Source »

...twenty," said Chaucer, shoving his chips out. The chips were made of slabs of doughnut from the kitchen, cut thin, and beautifully polished to look like ivory. Epaminondas went him twenty better, and they continued to pile up chips in a dreadfully reckless manner, until there were doughnuts enough on the table to have killed all the ostriches between Cairo and Capetown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HALL OF MEMORIES. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

...Faculty-meeting - you say!" shrieked Chaucer. "S-SO HAVE I!" Up jumped Sidney with - "I say, fellows, you know;" but was immediately silenced by a handful of doughnut chips from Geoffrey. I was making tracks for the door about this time, but I heard a dreadful crash as I reached it. The table was upside down, with its legs stretched appealingly into the air, and only the Greek standing upright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HALL OF MEMORIES. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

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