Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...cheeks that almost...
...Jones the money to buy the bracelet with; and so on, ad infinitum. You laugh at Thompson's remarks, and say that Jones is a lucky man, - reflecting that he was never known to pay his debts. A little later you come across Squibble, that incorrigible Bohemian, who knows almost everything that he ought to know, and everything that he ought not to. And Squibble, who has seen you talking to Jones, tells you how delightfully Miss Rosalie is taking him in; and how her husband - the fat man with the red nose who plays the bass-viol - has been...
...pretty far down. I never had an idea which did n't come from the Nation. I don't know anything about the great questions of philosophy. What is culture to me? I spend my time in playing cards for beer, and lately General Schenck has almost become my patron saint. 'Fine clothes and cigarette outside,' the writer in the Advocate says. There is one thing in my favor; I am not open to the fine-clothes charge, - though for a very good reason. But then I have smoked enough cigarettes to counterbalance that. I must reform. I will begin...
...regard to the class elections; but, as far as my observation will allow me to judge, there is little probability of an arrangement satisfactory to all parties concerned. And it seems to me that some radical change in the character of the ceremonies attendant upon graduation has become almost necessary...
...good thing to have. I think I should always advise a Freshman friend to take to himself a chum; and yet such counsel, without first consulting that pattern of elder brothers whose advice is fast forming his fraternal relative Jack into the paragon of all Freshmen, I almost hesitate to give. Indeed, I am rather inclined to think that, for the embryo man of fashion, it is, on the whole, expedient to pursue his arduous path alone. For myself, however, I would as soon think of vowing eternal celibacy as of going through college without a chum; and to nearly...