Word: big
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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JULIA. You're getting a big...
...mere dependent; for though we find many lamp-posts without mail-boxes, we rarely, if ever, come upon a mail-box not connected with a lamp-post. But, mind you, when I say mail-boxes I do not mean the dainty, fragile articles often so misnamed; but the big, honest, ugly iron boxes that are painted green, and shaped like knapsacks; and that open their capacious chests, not to the minions of a single household, but to all the world. We take it that the post is a mere support, - "Ah yes!" they exclaim; "it is the post...
...senseless object. No, take my word, it broods over all these secrets that are trustfully committed to its keeping; it ponders anxiously over the remedy to be applied here, or the check there. It has a soul. It is not an it, but an It, with a big I. It feels, and feels deeply. Its interest is personal, too. Eagerly It scans the faces of those that approach, finding in all something to sympathize with, something to pity, something to love. Many a time It shudders over the fearful blunders which cause a life-time's regret that might...
...waves harder and harder against our boat. I can't for the life of me say just how it happened, but I believe she quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing an ardent desire to die for her sake a number of times...
...Junior crew, being light-weight, will undoubtedly make a better show, and the Seniors will hold their own, to say the least. The Sophomore crew contains some of the heaviest men, but this fact seems to work against them. They are too self-confident, relying rather upon their big men than upon hard muscle and pluck. The Freshman shell is not expected before the middle of May. This is unfortunate, and will handicap them in the race unless they can borrow a shell to practise...