Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members. Here the leisure hours of every day are passed; the piano and organ stand invitingly open; the convenient sleepy-hollow lures one to recline at ease while he reads a novel from the well-filled book-case close at hand. Here the evenings are whiled away in pleasant chat on college matters or in a beguiling game of whist; and here at various times the students, a choice number, with a few invited guests, devote the evening to a reception or a german. In this way a fraternal feeling is inspired which is nearly impossible when the student...
...Wagg, the chief youth of the village, turned his steps toward the hut of the new arrivals. As he passed the spring in the market-place his face brightened, and with a smile he bowed low toward the damsels, who with Loe Hie at their head, sat in friendly chat around the spring. Then, with a heart overflowing with good-humor toward all the world, which, after all, means only satisfaction with one's self, he went...
...first visited a very neat little piece [obscure, piece of what?] with whom I passed a delightful evening [very vague]; but towards the end of our chat I became painfully aware that I had not accomplished my object, so I turned the conversation from morning prayers to early marriages. My young friend seemed to think I was meditating something of the sort [what sort?] and to consider it a huge joke [why?], for she only called me a silly boy as she bade me a "touching" [ambiguous] good...
...quiet chat in the moonlight pale...