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Word: likely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...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 »

...Like troops of gulls they fly away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WASTED. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...none of our institutions, except in part, and then to comparatively few. Having such a large revenue, the club is able to do more than any smaller association could attempt, in the way of enlarging its buildings (which are free from debt), buying books, supplying papers, and the like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD UNION. II. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...greatest difficulty in the way of establishing here a club like the Union is, of course, the opposition of existing societies. But such a club might exist without interfering in the least with the two or three old societies that no one wishes to see injured, or with the two smaller ones, of which the counterparts are to be found at Oxford as well. The former are essentially class societies, and, as such, will always be strong; the latter have a limited membership, confined to the most popular men in college; none of them would clash with a club like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OXFORD UNION. II. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

...nightly surprise, and her singing is worthy of serious opera. Her Clairette, Duchesse, and Boulotte are marked by a cleverness and finish which many more serious impersonations lack; in the last two roles, she has all the traditions of the diva Schneider. M. Capoul sings and acts like the perfect artist he is, - excellent as the lover Ange Pitou, Marasquin, or Piquillo, and equally so, in a widely different part, Falsanappa, the chief of brigands. Mlle. Angele has great beauty, a fair voice, and is an agreeable actress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STAGE. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

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