Word: booting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...importance that the heads of Pembroke ordered the room to be opened. This was not easily done, because the "oak" had been screwed up for the occasion, and trouble had been anticipated. When Mr. Grissell had been taken out, the papal chamberlain was ejected "at the toe of the boot" from the college which he had entered only a few hours before with all his accustomed dignity. The next morning three of the rioters were rusticated, but all who were engaged in the riot begged that they might share the same fate, because they were all equally guilty. The riot...
Lost - Two weeks ago, one blue cloth top lace boot for left foot. Finder will please leave the shoe with the janitor of Weld...
Lost - Two weeks ago, one blue cloth top lace boot for left foot. Finder will please leave the shoe with the janitor of Weld...
...according to the best judgment of the servant above-mentioned. He had a sleek, self-satisfied air, and well he might, for he knew the secret goings-on in an establishment which had been the despair of the president and corporation of Harvard College and six hundred students to boot. He probably knew why the directors remained together four hours in one day and then handed in a report to their constituents covering half a page of foolscap. He had been many times behind that mystery-hiding screen and could tell, if he would, why it takes fifteen minutes...
...last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute; and if I did n't jest lay over him, my name ain't Jaunty Tucker. Hoss died on his hands two months after I sold...