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Word: line (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...feel better when they started, his long legs taking him along with the head men across the Common. "Ah," thought Ferdy, "now they'll see 'the telegraph poles' ain't so bad," and Ferdy "hitted 'er up" across the fences, and was soon at the head of the line, and the "whipper in" crying to him not to go so blankety fast or he'll tire out the crowd. As they run up the street Ferdy begins to have, oh, such a pain in his side, and you can hear his heart go thumpety-thump against his ribs...

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

...hares should select their line of country before the run takes place. The time allowed the hares varies according to the proposed duration of the run, - varying from five to twenty minutes...

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

...Concord River," in the Tuftonian. The general effect is good, though marred somewhat by bad epithets and one or two unnecessary inversions. We would like to know what color a "blushing violet" is, and it seems as if the wrong deity had the adjective in the line...

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

...flaunting ensign mocks the line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POEMS BY EMINENT HANDS. | 11/21/1879 | See Source »

Steamer of the Cunard Line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SWELLS OF OCEAN. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

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