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"Pixilated,"--a Marblehead word, meaning bewildered, wild about any
matter. Probably derived from Pixy, a fairy.

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For a child's story,--imagine all sorts of wonderful playthings.

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Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Thomas More, Algernon Sidney, or some other
great man, on the eve of execution, to make reflections on his own
head,--considering and addressing it in a looking-glass.

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_March 16, 1849._--J---- ... speaking of little B. P----: "I will hug
him, so that not any storm can come to him."

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A story, the principal personage of which shall seem always on the point
of entering upon the scene, but never shall appear.

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In the "New Statistical Account of Scotland," (Vol. I.,) it is stated
that a person had observed, in his own dairy, that the milk of several
cows, when mixed together and churned, produced much less butter