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Word: spilt (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water must be spilt e'er it reach the fire...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The University Club. | 3/15/1887 | See Source »

...wine was spilt like blood and she was dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...curiosity, I strolled into Memorial. The faint moonlight shining through the many-colored windows made stains, as though brandy-and-water had been spilt upon the pavement. Perhaps this thought was father to a wish...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HALL OF MEMORIES. | 2/20/1880 | See Source »

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