Word: martyred
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores and knee-breeches. The latter is the case, and Mrs. De Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse. She it was who gleaned from St. Beuve's "Portraits de Femmes celibres" the secret of being fascinating without beauty, and determined to make herself a martyr in the cause of antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia...
Schuyler Colfax will deliver a lecture on "Our Martyr Presidents" at Yale March...
...martyr. So, lead...