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Word: tells (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...tell you his motive: an offering votive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MARKING SYSTEM. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

...they proceeded from one of the older Eastern colleges, the author would be directly accused of a snobbish desire to trample on struggling merit in the wild West; on this account, we are glad to find them in the Collegian. Speaking of the catalogue, the writer says: "It cannot tell you, from the course of study laid down, anything about the quality of the teaching. Promises made to the eye may be so imperfectly kept as to be broken to the hope. We have before us the prospectus of a college that has but five regular professors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...FACETIOUS Senior asked a Freshman to tell him the difference between a fac-simile and a sick family; but the laugh was on the Senior; for the Freshman instantly replied, "No difference: a sick family is a family that is sick, and fac-simile means 'the same.'" - Williams Review...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...tell her in their breath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FROM "LOVE'S PLAINT." | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...Tell her, sweet wind, that I would fain behold...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SONG FROM "LOVE'S PLAINT." | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

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