Word: chop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Jules Picot, formerly of Hayward Place and Brighton, now of 491 Tremont, near corner of Berkeley and Dover street, respectfully solicits his friends and patrons to visit his new place. Liquors and cigars. Chop house. Game suppers and Welsh rarebits a specialty. Private supper rooms...
...arriving at an estimate, but perhaps he was not far wrong in the result. In this connection I may speak of another college dignitary who used to invite the men to breakfast. He only invited one at a time, and the breakfast invariably consisted of an egg and a chop. "Now, Mr. Jones," he would say, "suppose you take the egg and I'll take the chop ; or do you take the chop and I will take the egg." The immense breakfast feeds of the university, which required a good deal of fluid to wash them down, were very properly...
...pays $130 for his steamer tickets, that will leave $1.90 a day, which will be enough to live on even in London. Of course it is necessary to take lodgings in some quiet place, perhaps not very near the city, and have your meals at the chop houses and small restaurants. It is very easy to confine one's self to a fixed amount, and to get into the way of bearing slight inconveniences in the way of travelling third class when necessary to use the railway, for this plan is based on experiences of a walking tour, and when...
...strong, hearty voice, of one who is probably speaking to college mates: "When we heard the proctor's step, Fred locked the door and whispered to me to chop up the sign as quickly as I could, and throw it into the fire. So I went at it with all my might. While I was doing that, he dropped down on his knees by the door and commenced with right good will to pray out aloud." "I say, though, did he? what for?" "Well, I'm coming to that. You see there was a rule at X - that no proctor...