Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889Various
History
Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889
Various
United States -- Politics and government -- Periodicals
Page 263: Standardised hyphenation: Was 'pic-nic' (Not on Wednesday,
for there's a confounded =picnic= afoot for that day.)
Page 263: Standardised hyphenation: Was 'pic-nics' (I wish the man
who invented =picnics= had been endowed with immortal life
on earth and made to go to every blessed one)
Page 269: Standardised hyphenation: Was 'pre-occupied' (They were
fine young fellows, and very pleasant, too, but Mell
continued so =preoccupied= in the vain racking of her
brain)
Page 270: Was 'omniverous' (It was altogether as much as she could
do to keep from sobbing aloud in the faces of all these
=omnivorous=, happy people.)
Page 273: Was 'inate' (to a simple country girl, who, destitute of
fortune, had nothing to commend her but =innate= modesty
and God-given beauty.)
Page 276: Was 'It' ("You mean it? =It is= a solemn promise! One of
those promises you always keep!")
Page 278: Was 'repentent' (I don't know who feels most idiotic or
=repentant=, the girl who wears 'em or the fellow who won
'em.)
Page 278: Was 'juvenality' (Jerome, as soon as he could again command
his voice, "unless it be Miss Josey's =juvenility=.")
Page 281: Was 'It' ("But I don't wonder you feel a little frightened
about it. =It is= such a wonderful thing for Rube to do:
but Rube has two eyes in his head,)
Page 282: Was 'How--do' ("=How-do=, old fellow?" said Jerome, by way
of congratulation.)
Page 287: Was 'bran' (She must take an airing with him in his
=brand= new buggy)
Page 289: Standardised hyphenation: Was 'farmhouse' (And so it came
about that on a certain day Rube came as usual to the
=farm-house=, but not as usual, alone.)
Page 291: Was 'it' (The visit was long and pleasant, and at =its=
close Mell accompanied her guests to the very door of
their carriage.)
Page 293: Was 'wont' (Only Clara =won't= announce, because she wants
to keep up to the last minute her good times)
Page 298: Was 'fiercy' ("She can lie, and lie, and still be
honorable," he informed her with =fierce= irony.)
Page 299: Was 'tortment' (you can never know what hours of
=torment=, what days of suffering, this conduct of yours
has cost me.)
Page 301: Was 'exquisively' (but take the woman of emotional nature,
=exquisitely= sensitive in all matters of feeling, and to
such the touch of unloved)
Page 302: Was 'it' (The ball is over, gone, past, never to come back
again, with its waltz melody, =its= ravishing rhyme
without reason)
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