Word: bade
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...accomplished my object, so I turned the conversation from morning prayers to early marriages. My young friend seemed to think I was meditating something of the sort [what sort?] and to consider it a huge joke [why?], for she only called me a silly boy as she bade me a "touching" [ambiguous] good...
...stage; they opened wider and wider, spots of color came in his cheeks, and his breath came and went rapidly; to look at him was more fun than the play. Never once during the evening did he look away from the stage, and when the play was over he bade me good-night, and without saying more went home to his hotel. The next morning a letter came, and I thought before I opened it : "Ah, my goose is thoroughly cooked; the old man has given me up as a lost sheep and will have nothing more to do with...
With laughing eyes she bade me choose...
...each mortal up to the appointed place, and, after having officiously assisted him in relieving himself of his burden, bade him look to his elective. My heart melted to see my companions groaning under their respective loads. There were, however, one or two persons who gave me great diversion. I observed a swell Senior bringing in a bundle carefully concealed under a polished silk hat, which, on his throwing it down in the heap, I discovered to be a bill at Carl's. A Junior, after a great deal of puffing, threw down his luggage, which, on examination, I found...
...bade him write with his venomous...