Word: came
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ceased; and soft a timid breeze came, sighing...
...while the poet slept, a spirit came...
...Another shake, another pointing of the finger, and I found myself in what would have done well for a glass furnace. Thermometer here made desperate efforts to get out of the case. I was just about saying, "I shall put off my bath till another day," when my guide came in and sadly led the way to a little room in which was a slab. Obeying signs, I stretched myself out and felt ready for dissection. Very much like dissection was the process that followed. First he carelessly sprinkled over me a few handfuls of boiling water, and then, raising...
...Cornell are too poor, their delegates say, to make the change; so Harvard and Yale must yield to the necessities of the others. Harvard and Yale, again, wish to row with coxswains in eight-oar boats; but so far is such a proposal from being acceptable, that some delegates came to the late convention wishing even for four-oars. Yet, since Harvard began the Association, she must now forego her wishes; and although of enormous resources compared with some of her fellow colleges, she must descend to their level, and acquiesce in the desires of a college of a hundred...
...front it. Every hard-earned dollar is spent in dress and a praiseworthy attempt to make herself comely and fascinating; she emerges from her room as a butterfly from its unpretending chrysalis, and hardly any one could imagine the plump little shop-girl that serves him so deftly ever came down from such garret-like apartments, and trudges her way to the more frequented and busy streets...