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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...girl was struck with me, and wanted to flirt. Said she mistook me for a friend, - way they always do, you know, - but gad! she was cut up badly when she found I knew you, and so she stuck to it that she could n't tell us apart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A COUNTERFEIT PRESENTIMENT. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...then perhaps you can tell me something about the life at Harvard. Do the fellows drink, smoke, play cards for money, and bet, as at Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...this time the T. F. had, as he thought, penetrated the "feeble disguise," and consequently tried hard to think of something sensational and alarming to tell him; but, failing in this, he was forced to put on his boldest look, and say he guessed the girls would n't bother the fellows...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL THINGS ARE NOT, ETC. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

FIRST SUB-FRESH. Can you tell where I can get a permit to the Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...songs from "The Tempest," by G. W. Marston. "Beside the Summer Sea" and "A bird was singing" (Songs) by Henshaw Dana. "My love will return to me" (Song), by J. D. Leavitt. Snowflake and In the Twilight, by George Philipp. Polka, Rondino and Romanza, by George Philipp. "O tell me, thou life" (Hymn Anthem), by H. M. Dunham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MUSIC RECEIVED. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

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