period
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"Representative of our greatest period!" snapped Lord Salisbury.
From Time Magazine Archive
"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
“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
Dreadful period! when every human being is looked upon as a murderer.
From Caesar's Column by Donnelly, Ignatius
"Heaven hasten the period!" said the mother, impatiently; "for I am most heartily tired and worn out with the strange life we lead here."
From The Sea-Witch Or, the African Quadroon : a Story of the Slave Coast by Ballou, Maturin Murray
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