Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Amherst and Williams bid their flambeaus shine...
...these guests you, the graduates of Harvard College, bid hearty welcome. But who shall welcome the welcomers? You need no welcome here. Familiar rooms and paths, hands of comrades and friends, joyous and tender memories, and the visions of your youth have welcomed...
...flimsy plots; in fact, how such a mere thread of a story can be spread out over four acts is entirely incomprehensible. Miss Mitchell has not a pleasing delivery; she uses one style of voice for everything, defies her 'haughty rival' in the same tone that she uses to bid her lover good-bye, and bids her lover good-bye in the same tone in which she tells him of her love. Miss Mitchell seems to think that piquancy is given to her conversation by a slight rising inflection at the end of every sentence, but such a thing becomes...
...line of march was taken up to the house of the Mayor. Here the serenade was interrupted by the appearance of that gentleman himself, who hospitably threw open his doors and invited all to come in. After a short entertainment of the societies in his house, the Mayor was bid "good-night," and with twenty-seven cheers the party returned to the hotel. For an account of the manner of this return, the meeting, disarming, restoration and pacification of the belligerant policeman; the storming of the ball-room; the multifarious deeds at the hotel, and the many humorous events...
...obscure member of '88 yesterday bid $2.00 on a $40.00 rug at the auction sale at Lyceum Hall...