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Words worth knowing: genially · unimpaired · unreservedly · physiologist · inappropriate · horny · hawser · cursory
BY HERMAN MELVILLE, AUTHOR OF "PIAZZA TALES," "OMOO," "TYPEE," ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK: DIX, EDWARDS & CO., 321 BROADWAY 1857.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1857, by HERMAN MELVILLE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
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