Word: almost
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...decided that the other man touched it first and "deaded" it. This caused some dispute, but the play soon proceeded, the Canadians still acting on the defensive. About twenty minutes after the game began, an accident occurred which seriously marred our thus far uninterrupted pleasure. Mr. Whiting, in an almost hopeless attempt to rush through three men, slipped and fell, breaking the smaller bone of the right leg just above the ankle. Fortunately a surgeon was near by, and Mr. Whiting was immediately removed from the field and properly cared for. Fourteen men, - one of them a substitute, - no goals...
...rate. At the same time expensive bindings are not the thing. They are well enough on drawing-room tables, but, far from helping you to enjoy a book, they make you afraid to treat it familiarly. And books which look as if you never read them are almost as bad as no books at all. It is a good plan, by the way, to keep one or two volumes on various subjects lying carelessly on your table. As for the choice of books I need not say much. You are not fool enough to throw away your money on second...
...nature. The husband, in the mean time, is a kind of gentleman at large; exercising an authoritative control over everything within the purlieus of the house; reading news-papers and political pamphlets; deciding on the characters and measures of an administration, and dictating the policy of his country. In almost all families of this class the mother and her daughters lead a life of meritorious diligence and economy, while the husband is merely a bond of union and a legal protector of the household. Accordingly he is paid and supported, not for his services, but for his presence...
...Dwight's first remark on Boston is the same as that of ordinary mortals, - it is in regard to the streets. Next he laments (as Dr. Holmes did only last year) "that the scheme of forming public squares should have been almost universally forgotten." The houses he calls "superior to those of every American city," and says they "appear with peculiar advantage on Mount Vernon (which used to be called Beacon Hill)." He characterizes the people as being "noted for intelligence, love of liberty, generosity, and civility." They are, he says, "distinguished by a lively imagination, having characters more resembling...
...Galaxy for November is an excellent number of the magazine. It contains a continuation of "Madcap Violet," Essays by Richard White Grant, T. M. Coan, Albert Rhodes, and others. The story of "Miss Ruth" is almost, without exception, the best of its kind that we have read for years...