"Heroine" is perhaps as peculiar a word as any in our language; the two
first letters of it are a male, the three first a female, the four first
a brave man, and the whole word a brave woman.
-- From the Nevada Morning Transcript of February 15, 1861
first letters of it are a male, the three first a female, the four first
a brave man, and the whole word a brave woman.
-- From the Nevada Morning Transcript of February 15, 1861
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