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...during the past few weeks, repeatedly signified their approbation of it by much laughter and applause, - and Boston audiences are supposed to be au fait in such matters; but it seems as though it would have been a cause of much delight to the undergraduate mind had the young woman who sustained the part lumped the whole thing, so to speak, and by taking the entire bottle at one draught, converted herself into an infant in a much shorter space of time, and not prolonged the agony by dragging it through five scenes. The scene where she appeared...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THEATRICALS. | 3/10/1876 | See Source »

...year the miraculous power of Boshor enabled her to bring forth as many female children as there were men, while the commerce of Munnee and the women produced an equal number of males. When these demigods were fully grown, Munnee placed a treasure in the hands of each woman, and thereby induced his sons to murder their mothers. Boshor at the same time aroused the jealousy of her daughters by fascinating all the men, and, working upon their passions, she induced them to poison their fathers at a great feast. The old savages having been thus destroyed, the gods made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RELIGION AND MORALS OF THE MOUND-BUILDERS. | 2/25/1876 | See Source »

They are neither man nor woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CALLS. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...hard and hollow as a woman's heart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AFTER BROWNING. | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...tear or two, ask no questions; she has a woman's heart, and it may be almost breaking, yet a kind word would ruin her. She does her best, and has her faults; but we are like her in the latter, and often behind her in the former. She is one of a queer element in the city's vast population, and her life passes as a tedious dream; but after the dream she sleeps and wakes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE GRISETTE. | 12/10/1875 | See Source »