Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Scratch Races will take place Saturday, October 13, at 11.30 A.M., over the boat-house course. The book for entries is now open at Richardson's; it will be closed Friday evening. The entrance-fee is fifty cents, as usual...
...begun somewhere in the third book, and read away till I came to where my preparation stopped. I paused and looked up at my master. "Go on," said he. "Five minutes more...
...protested, but it was of no avail. The book was forced upon me, and I was compelled to stumble through first the scanning and then the translation of an ode or two. Mr. Archibald held his watch open in his hand...
...left there with my book in my hand. I would not go, they might have to send for a doctor. I took up the book again: "That was not right, was it?" I thought. '"Pro qua' means, 'for whom,' and not 'on which account'; but I have made worse mistakes than that, and he did not notice it either...
Then I put down the Latin, and took up another book, and waited. Then I put that down and looked at her music, and touched the piano! How slowly the time went! How still the house was! I sat down again and waited; I walked around and waited. I could bear it no longer, but took my hat and left the house...