Word: leaded
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...black, with a capacious white felt hat resting soberly on his straight black hair, smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled as I saw him looming in the distance; my heart sank down to my boots, and I felt...
...gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look of meek reproach for which his brother was famous. To his intense astonishment, they did n't slink out of the room abashed and ashamed. They only said that he looked so pious he ought to lead them in prayer; and they made...
...martyr. So, lead...
...introduction; I did not dare to disclose my love, but feasted my eyes on the charms of her arms and the grace of her face. At length, after many trials and tribulations expressed in many mournful strains, my love is crowned with success, and I am about to lead her to the altar and live happily ever afterwards, when she discloses to me that in taking her I must also take her mother, two maiden aunts, a grandmother (paternal), and a little sister under my protection. This is too much, and I send Belinda the following farewell...
...must, sooner or later, be acquainted with. There, it is "the thing" to think and to talk about them, and to take part in the Union debates. Here, it is not; and this lies at the root of the matter. Until men who are prominent in college take the lead, as once they did, in giving a reasonable amount of attention to matters of general interest in the world, we shall have no club like the Oxford Union, and it will be, as now, "the thing" to think of little besides being "swell." To be swell, and at the same...