Word: come
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...SHUFFLING in the hall, a knock at my door, "Come in," and in comes Nicholas. He has a pair of bright black eyes, a glistening set of teeth to relieve a dark Italian complexion, and a rich mass of unkempt hair. Nicholas's vocation is candy-selling, but he does not confine himself to this vocation solely. On bright days he is to be found in the streets of Boston, singing to the accompaniment of an organ carried by his father...
...outside my own, and something to laugh at besides college jokes. Bless the dog-man who will tell me about the latest addition to "Missy's" family. Bless the delicate young creature who will kiss me if I buy a basket (I would n't buy one). Let more come to give me a sympathy with mankind; my latch-string shall be always out. Bless them all; bless - I had almost said the book-agent...
...considering that it is the first time for three months that they have had oars in their hands, they pulled remarkably well. The boat first went down the river, then turned and passed the boat-house, and was greeted by a "three times three" from the crowd which had come down to see them. A very pleasant little attention to the men who had been working so diligently all winter...
...many, many years to come even the richest American universities will need to apply all the money they receive to the endowment of instruction and research (not separately, but together), the acquisition of grounds, buildings, collections, and instruments, and the enlargement of their means of providing a gratuitous education for promising young men of slender means. When these more pressing objects are accomplished, they may, perhaps, begin to think of offering money-prizes, accessible to rich or poor, for notable attainments at school and at the university, and of providing for the comfortable support of able young men, rich...
...come to visit Nat's sister...