Word: beds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Again, early in the morning, the slide clicks, and the half-awake man leaps from his bed to the door with one bound, only to be told to bring his smoking and toilet articles at the "old stand." He calls it the "old stand" and something more, and crawls back to bed again; but the "old stand" will get no trade from...
...SALE.-Furniture for sale cheap for cash. The owner wishes to dispose of the following articles and leave Cambridge at once: Two bookcases, portieres, chairs, centre-table, writing desk, awnings and full set of bed room furniture. Also British Challenge 54-inch bicycle. Call at 16 Weld this morning or to-morrow morning between 10 and 1 o'clock and afternoon...
...SALE.-Furniture for sale cheap for cash. The owner wishes to dispose of the following articles and leave Cambridge at once: Two bookcases, portieres, chairs, centre table, writing desk, awnings and full set of bed room furniture. Also British Challenge 54-inch bicycle. Call at 16 Weld this morning or to-morrow morning between 10 and 1 o'clock and afternoon...
...looking well at the quarters on our arrival, and after we had carefully taken the boats and oars from the steamer and deposited them in the boathouse, we proceeded to take possession of our rooms, or rather alcoves, for they are little more. Each alcove is provided with a bed, a hard mattress, an exceedingly hard pillow, and a sort of a rough shelf, which serves as a wash stand. The walls are decorated to a certain extent with the statistics of former races, the autographs of former oarsmen, and sarcastic observations from unknown visitors, very partial to our adversaries...
...students lodge in houses in the town and board anyshere and everywhere. Their rooms are, as a rule, scantily furnished. Numerous swords line the walls, pipes lie here and there. A table rimmed with beer-stains, books, a few chairs, a bed, mugs of various sizes and fantastic devices-these constitute the principle bric-a-brac. The odor of stale tobacco prevades everything. Excepting as a mere resting-place the student seldom uses his room. HE is a Bohemian to the core. You may oftenest find him in a beer-shop, discussing obstruse, metaphysical problems through clouds of tobacco smoke...