period
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"Representative of our greatest period!" snapped Lord Salisbury.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"If she can't behave herself here, she goes back with us, period! I'm not going to send them anymore to cause trouble!"
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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“Do you boys have someone in there with you? You know that’s against the rule. No room visits, period! And even more no room visits during lights-out!”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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Deaths, births, marriages, changes of circumstances, and relations, how they had accumulated during that period! and how often the tears would start, and the lip tremble, as the recital went on!
From I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success by Roe, Azel Stevens
"What a period!" he uttered, laying the book down.
From Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties by Beerbohm, Max, Sir
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