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Word: glacier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Talk not of a trip to the Alps unless you slid off from a glacier; nor of a trip to England unless you shook hands with the Prince of Wales...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 10/9/1882 | See Source »

...questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted a solution with a little glacier in his; but Chelsea being a temperance town it was not to be considered. Finally we decided that each man should choose a hill, go up, take a nap, and afterwards we would meet near Malden, tell our dreams and lunch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIZZY DAY. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...stood a house that had evidently drifted down, ages ago, with the glacier...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIZZY DAY. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...many million years did you say the last glacier covered Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMI-ANNUAL CONVERSATION. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

Have found the glacier warmer than his mien...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COLLEGE COMEDY. | 2/6/1880 | See Source »

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