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Word: wide (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gossamer reins, although clad in bearskins and seven-league boots, was nevertheless so jolly-looking, that Henry, very much emboldened, clambered upon the step of the chariot as it flew by, and was thus transported with the speed of the wind far beyond the great forest into the wide world that he had never seen. He was wholly absorbed in the contemplation of many marvels, so that he did not see another genie approach and stand beside him, till the genie rang a little silver bell, enclosed in a wonderful pistol-shaped instrument of silver. "???" said the genie. "A ???." Henry...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORY OF LITTLE HENRY. | 11/11/1881 | See Source »

...dipping to the sea's wide brim...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SEA VIEW. | 6/17/1881 | See Source »

...Wide open thine ear is, alert is thine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHAPERON. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

Tootsy's eyes opened very wide, but she knew she was uneducated, and had come to Cambridge to be cultured; so she resumed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOOTSY SWIDGER'S VISIT TO CAMBRIDGE. | 3/25/1881 | See Source »

...very "doggy" Senior on his way from Boston to Cambridge in one of the commodious yellow sardine-boxes furnished by the Union Railway. (Elevated railroads and voluntary prayers are things of the future.) He sat in the centre of a space wide enough for two, - dreamily thinking of the kindness of the Refrigerator and Ficklety of Harvard College, and planning up some pretty little present to give the proctors * when he left...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "AESTHETICS." | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

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