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I sat in a corner like a homely girl at a kissing-bee, and had nothing to say.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and In the Mountains Drannan, William F 1899
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I sat in a corner like a homely girl at a kissing-bee, and had nothing to say.
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains William F. Drannan 1872
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(noun) - (1) A term used facetiously for a party --William Craigie's Dictionary of American English, 1940 (2) "I sat in the corner like a homely girl at a kissing-bee, and had nothing to say." --W.F. Drannan's Thirty-one Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, 1900
April 22, 2018