Word: click
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...regular as clock-work. When the instant arrives, click goes the machinery and down falls the blow. So it is with our annually recurring complaints. Spring puts in an appearance, and with it must come its appropriate complaint. But you will say when you hear this particular complaint, "Oh that is the old one of 'keep off the grass!' " So it is. But why do we utter again the time-worn and useless cry? Truly, only because we think it has neither of these two qualities. Time-worn it may seem to some, however, but thereby only the more...
...opened the list. To-night occurs the dinner of the Glee Club-Pierian Association, and then follow club and society dinners in such quick succession that but few evenings between now and the Easter recess will not be marked by the jolly choruses of Harvard students, or by the click of their glasses responsive to the toastmaster's call...
...echo to "Michael Roy," is unpleasant and not uncommon; the man upstairs who is getting up his muscle, and who dreps thirty pound dumbbells on the floor, is another variety. All tend to perfect repose and rest of mind. The janitor making the fires at 4 A. M., the click of the letter box in the early morning, and the peripatetic student overhead, who studies by the lap, are minor and soothing noises." We thank Snodkins for his courtesy; rise, bid him adieu, and leave the room just in time to hear a party of six or eight go tearing...
...absurd, sofa don't sway, how can it? Contrary to all laws of nature. I know what it is, it's this poor, miserable head of mine; trouble's here, sofa's all right." This momentary flash of intelligence overcomes me, and I fall into a blissful doze. "Click, click," goes the letter box. I start up suddenly, exclaim viciously, and stagger mechanically towards the door. "Suppose it's another postal for my chum announcing meeting of St. Paul's or Natural History Societies. No, by Jove! it's for me. Yes, I knew it would be a bill. Breakage...