Word: redly
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...young lady's but a sample card I had picked up at the stationer's. My chagrin was great, but it could not be compared to the dread I have had since then, for passing the house next day I noticed hanging from one of the windows a little red flag, denoting that some one in the house was sick with a contagious disease. I went home and burned all the clothes I wore on the day of my call. This happened a month ago, and I am all right up to the present date. It was a narrow escape...
...forest, "O-o-o-o-n," as they sprang out from the dark shadows; he tried to draw his knife, but my sharp teeth met in his arm. Hark! A short yelping bark, a snapping of bright teeth, and a grinding sound, and there is nothing but a dark red stain on the fair white snow. Hu-u-u-u! how we sped along under the bright, cruel stars, to the merry, long-drawn notes, while the poor frightened peasant put another bar on his flimsy door and shiveringly murmured, "Les loups-garous...
...When the red mists of morning break...
...travel round our barn-yard much, 'sides, the smell of the yard ain't always agreeable to city folks. And I wasn't sighing about you, but because ma didn't put any doughnuts in my lunch basket; and I looked at you because you looked so like red-headed Sam Smith who is gone daown to Waterford College." All this volleyed at me in a nasal twang from a mouth lined with bad teeth, accompanied by a healthy smell of onions, was too much for me, and I was driven to the smoking car and the solace...
...come. The long-expected, the widely advertised, the unparalleled circus has come, and we have seen it. There were those who sneered at the superlative adjectives on the large red and blue posters; there were others who refused to believe that any show could equal Barnum's; but they all now agree that the posters, far from exaggerating, did not half express the wealth of this circus, and that it beat Barnum...