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Word: handfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first man who called upon him wore glasses and a long cloak, and carried the Fortnightly Review in his hand. He was a literary man, and said, "Respected Sir, this college demands a literary magazine. I leave you my essay on the 'Superstitions of Composition, in its Relation to Modern Thought,' for your first number...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN IDEAL COLLEGE PAPER. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

Nevertheless Ferdy plods on, rubbing the afflicted part with one hand, while the muckers scream at him to "hurry up, daddy-long-legs, you'll get left," but Ferdy is too wretched to mind such sarcasm. At last his wind is gone, his legs feel like lumps of iron, and there is a ploughed field and a brook between him and the hounds. Ferdy stumbles and tumbles over the ploughed furrows, and nerves himself to jump the brook - vain attempt! splash he strikes in the water and sinks to his waist in the slimy refrigerator. It is too much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WOFUL TALE OF FERDINAND VAN RASSELAS. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...then $7.63; it looks like business to have some odd cents on hand, and now to work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCOUNTS; AS THEY ARE AND AS THEY GO HOME. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ACCOUNTS; AS THEY ARE AND AS THEY GO HOME. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

...crush me with a lavish hand...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONNET. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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