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Word: wandering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...very rough, profane man, whom you would never have suspected of tender sensibilities, is reported to have said that he would just like to get hold of old Sprucewell, Paradise receive him! Only he said something entirely different from Paradise: it was his bluff, honest way. But I wander a little from the purpose of this simple tale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DAISY SPRUCEWELL'S ROMANCE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

Where the gray sails wander...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLOUDS AT THE SEASIDE. | 11/12/1880 | See Source »

...introduced to a damsel whom Fate had doubly tried to conceal, not only by naming her Smith, but also by giving her hair and eyes of the universal mind's own brown hue; and as I danced with her my own optics would wander away from her to the fair-haired Amy and that ill-omened Yale man, in spite of me, so that I fear the Miss Smith had a very meagre opinion of what Harvard "culchaw" had done...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COUSINING. | 10/29/1880 | See Source »

...Wander across an azure meadow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WATER-LILIES. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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