Word: chum
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...gilt-edged note from my tailor, which I took for an invitation; a postal card from a Sunday school; another with the College arms on it; and the rest advertisements, notices, and what not. The room was cold, dismal, and dusty, whereas I had fondly hoped that my chum would be back before me and have everything snug and comfortable. With the charitable intention of making him light the fire, I had taken just as long a vacation as the "law allowed and the court awarded," and not to find him here was indeed a sad disappointment. There...
...occasional bark from some far-off farmer's house-dog at intervals that made the silence more supreme, and my thoughts, mounting the fumes of my cigarette for their hippogriff, galloped away as only reveries can speed at the end of a particularly interesting holiday." And here my chum poked the fire, smiled, and then went on impressively...
...replied my chum, hastily. " I meant to say that I pulled up my coat-collar, and with...
...having the aforesaid sum handy, I offered to take dummy's hand and play for it," said my chum. I whistled incredulously...
This settled it; my chum stopped, looked up, and laughed...