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...that ruby-red roses should languish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE QUIZZICAL CLUB. | 4/5/1881 | See Source »

This report conflicts to some extent with one which has just reached here, viz., that instead of shipping Boylston to Russia it is to be painted red, white, and blue, and put up at the World's Fair, in which General Grant is to receive his callers and presents. The latest despatch comes from New York, saying that O'Beery has offered to give away a debt of $2,000, incurred at the last walking-match, to any man who can smooth off the blocks of Boylston in 365 consecutive days. Two men have entered, the Chinese professor and Connors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOYLSTON'S BLEAK BLOCKS. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...dream of you in the dull-red...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A QUESTION OF TIME. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...violets and the red-lipped pulpits hemmed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSSIBLE HISTORY. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...turned very red at this, as though I had hinted that she was insufficiently clad. Then I explained. She laughed in the most astonishing way, and confessed that she had never yet been afflicted by the deadly disease which her husband had imputed to her. And then I knew that Alfred had been guilty of the basest prevarication. I almost wept over his fault; my confidence in human...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REMINISCENCES OF TENNYSON. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »