Word: cheaping
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...generous heart compels him to cry "Come in" at every knock on his door. Many a time has he sold his best coat - for the wretches will hardly look at an old one - at about one nineteenth of its value, and then been wheedled into taking his pay in cheap vases simply to get rid of his tormentors...
...part of May. He will assist in managing a summer school at Nantucket, in which Professor Agassiz, and other eminent naturalists of the College, will lecture. The design of the school is to give field instruction to those who intend to become teachers of Natural History. Board will be cheap, and the tuition-fee probably about...
...tell you of the low trick played on a dun by my chum last year. My chum had been deluded enough to subscribe to one of those periodical editions of Don Quixote, under the pleasing belief that it would be a fine thing to acquire Cervantes in so cheap a manner. "Just think!" he said. "Only fifty cents to be paid each week. And, really, every fellow should own Don Quixote." Affairs went on smoothly for two or three weeks. The payments were prompt, and each number of the periodical was eagerly devoured. But at about the time mentioned...