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Word: grinning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Comes Jack's well-remembered broad grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARVELLOUS VISION. | 4/1/1879 | See Source »

Until the whole is one vast copper grin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 3/21/1879 | See Source »

...down all sorts of blessings on our heads. "Yes, the 'stoodints' have certainly come. Waiter-girls smirk, boarding-school girls smirk, New Haven girls smirk, even one or two less-anile-than-usual washerwomen have been observed to smirk; in short, New Haven is one great mouth on a grin. And we are all up a notch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 9/27/1877 | See Source »

With a sardonic grin Xanthippe cut short his remarks, and, seizing Socrates by the ear, she dragged him calmly but firmly toward the rear entrance of the theatre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENIAN HIPPODROME. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...appeared, a grin glided down the length of the table. He was evidently some old laughing-stock, some Portuguese Daniel Pratt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES ABROAD. | 4/23/1875 | See Source »

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