Word: brace
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hail you. You are on deck, brace up, immense...
...think mother might have hit on some other time to get sick. Some people are confoundedly inconsiderate, any way. [Notices screen.] Holloa! they cage the animals, do they? [Peeks through blind.] By Jove, there's one of 'em now, I do believe. Wish the old antique downstairs would brace, so I could have the thing through with. Wonder if I had n't better begin operations at once, and have the agony over. I will, so help me Bob. [Passes to other side of screen and seats himself without looking at Miss C., who, noticing his entrance, rises...
...Varsity Crew, as the Echo said, " Less interest was apparently taken in the University Crew and the race with Yale, than was taken in the Class Crews and their Spring Races." This is only too painfully true, and though many say that after Christmas the men will "brace up" and begin to try, still that seems too indefinite a way to set about winning the race from Yale, who has had almost all her old men, and many more, in training for over six weeks. If our rowing men will enter into training with energy and determination, they will inspire...
...each man's name was called he marched up to the table and commenced a process of slow revolution about it, stopping at each of the professors to answer what appeared to be very numerous questions. My name was one of the first, and, having given myself a final brace, I stepped proudly up to the table, conscious that I was the only American there and determined to sustain the honor of my country. I was, therefore, not a little taken aback when the individual with the pile of papers held out my passport to me and calmly told...
...freedom from grammatical and typographical errors, at least. We are of the opinion that Harvard deserves as good a daily as Yale, and will support one. There is, however, room for only one daily here, and we are thus dependent upon the Echo. We hope to see a speedy "brace" on the part of our cotemporary, and we are extremely sorry that the present comment is necessary...