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Authors names: Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923 (3) Harte, Bret, 1836-1902 (2)

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Synonyms: Miss; drop; escape; fille; girl; lack; leave out; lose; misfire; miss; missy; neglect; omit; overleap; overlook; pretermit; young lady; young woman

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  1.  Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm / Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
    irritation, a mood born of Miss Miranda Sawyer's stiff, grim, and martial attitude. The remembrance ... . "I'll take you up and show you your room, Rebecca," Miss Miranda said. "Shut the mosquito nettin  details...
  2.  New Chronicles of Rebecca / Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
    JACK O'LANTERN I Miss Miranda Sawyer's old-fashioned garden was the pleasantest spot in Riverboro ... so terrible that it could only be hinted at vaguely, and Miss Miranda Sawyer had remarked that any niece  details...
  3.  Hilda Lessways / Bennett, Arnold, 1867-1931
    who was known as Miss Miranda--she seemed to have no surname. One of Miss Miranda's duties had been to teach optional French, and one of Miss Miranda's delights had been to dictate this very poem of Victor Hugo ...  details...
  4.  Sally Dows / Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
    have a letter for Miss Miranda, but I shall be very glad if Miss Sally Dows will receive me," returned Courtland ... and silent. "I'm not Miss Miranda Dows," said the vision with a frankness that was half childlike and half  details...
  5.  A Bundle of Letters / James, Henry, 1843-1916
    CHAPTER I FROM MISS MIRANDA MOPE, IN PARIS, TO MRS. ABRAHAM C. MOPE, AT BANGOR, MAINE. September 5th, 1879. My dear ... , are the most brilliant invention of the age, and a real stroke of genius on the part of Miss Miranda! They also take  details...
  6.  The Flag-Raising / Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith, 1856-1923
    ," Miss Miranda said. "Shut the mosquito nettin' door tight behind you, so's to keep the flies out; it ain ... have been wasted on a child. Miss Miranda entered, and as her eye wandered about the vacant room, it fell upon  details...
  7.  Colonel Starbottle's Client / Harte, Bret, 1836-1902
    -room, or the business-room, where Miss Miranda frequently assisted Captain Dows in the fatuous and prejudiced ... mixture of blood which was one of the unproven counts of Miss Miranda's indictment against her family  details...
  8.  The Sunny Side / Milne, A. A. (Alan Alexander), 1882-1956
    is rising again. "Our next poet," he says, "is Miss Miranda Herrick, whose work is so distinguished for its ... it would be idle to deny that he would miss the finer shades of the dramatist's meaning. "The insolence of office  details...
  9.  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, September 5, 1891 / Various
    capacity, was a man of his word. It appears that he was engaged to a Miss MIRANDA BUDE. Indeed ... with a fellow countryman. Miss MAUD S. TROTTER is seated on the after-deck in close conversation  details...
  10.  How Deacon Tubman and Parson Whitney Kept New Year's And Other Stories / Murray, W. H. H.
    , when I observe that Miss Miranda was not physically stout, and that the deacon's standing joke was by no means ... WORTH) Vignette Initial--"New Year's, eh?" "What's the matter with the pesky thing?" "Miranda  details...

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