Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Rhode Island Supreme Court has set Feb. 11 as the day for a hearing of the bid of $2,600,000 for the Sprague estate...
...when the judges ruled out all of his opponents for unfair walking, was by preventing Merrill himself from finishing the distance and thus have all bets declared "off" on the ground of there being "no race." This blackguardism was the more unfortunate as at the time it happened Merrill bid fair to eclipse all previous amateur records at the distance, one mile. As it is, his own record, 6 min. 33 2-5 sec., made in New York before leaving for England, still stands as the fastest amateur record in the world at the distance. Myers at this meeting succeeded...
...progress. I was quite willing to stop there, as I had become thoroughly convinced that there were other modes of transit, less rapid, perhaps, but quite as agreeable as sliding across a rough floor on the bridge of one's nose. The ordinary Sophomore would, at this point, have bid a tearful adieu to so questionable a form of amusement, court-plastered his nose, and forthwith presented at No. 5 a petition to be excused from giving any further attention to college duties, except tennis and the Greek play...
Thou art the keen thorn that dost bid me beware...
After this, on the morrow, he with many more was placed in a large cage, and given ink and pens and paper, and bid to write. And he did write, but it was all wrong. The keepers of these cages glided up and down before them noiselessly, and watched the inmates. Then Lighthead turned to a wight next him and inquired, "Why do they peer at us so carefully?" "They are afraid that we may spring a crib upon them," replied the lad; but ere Lighthead could go farther in his quest of knowledge, one of the watchers did approach...