Word: ask
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...trenching on the prerogatives of the President, offer a toast myself, and ask a gentleman, one of the professors of this University, a fair illustration of the word that the office should seek the man and not the man the office, and in this case I may say, if reports speak truly, the office had to knock several times at the door before it was bidden to come in, - a gentleman whose selection for a post abroad, where he will have to tread in the footsteps of Washington Irving, has done honor to Harvard University, honor to him, and honor...
...seemed embarrassed, but recovered himself and said, "So you've found that, have you? No, it is n't mine, I am keeping it for - Well, Morris, I think I'll tell you about it, and ask your adv ce about what I ought to do with it. Never mind the studs, but sit down...
...what I wanted to ask you was, whether I'd better have it washed or not. Because it looks disgracefully now, but if it was clean I'm afraid I should n't remember about...
...said I, "I think I do, but I don't understand pools very well any way, I wish you 'd explain to me the way you do it; because I don't like to ask anybody I don't know, for fear they 'll laugh...
...occurred to any one to make a careful study of the ordinary Irishman, the kind who builds fires for his living. The specimen with which I have daily intercourse would furnish a careful student of human nature with a fund of amusement and instruction that would be inexhaustible. I ask you, my reader, to picture to yourself a man whose sole care in life, as far as it appears, is the burden of lighting sundry fires and cleaning various boots. It would seem as if this responsibility was not enough to make him absent-minded, yet one would suppose that...