Word: cough
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...just as good elsewhere as at his own door. Taking this easy-going thoughtless view of the case, he leaves his rubbers in his room and in consequence reaches the library with wet feet. Here he sits for an hour or so at least and next morning has a cough or cold to help him in his grinding. Plank walks to the library would prove a great blessing. As it is now, not a path leading to that building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy...
...Simpson. "Gully's Revenge, or a Tale of the Crossing." Author unknown. "The Drugged Doughnut, or Three Buckets of Blood." By Gasp Hard. "The Mad Butcher, or The Fate of a Yale Tutor." By the author of "Beautiful Snow." "The Dumb Singer or The Warped Tooth Brush." By Hic. Cough...
...often seen them at a distance, but it had never been my good fortune to know one personally. As I walked along absorbed in speculations upon the probable characteristics of these maiden collegians, I was startled by a slight cough, and upon looking up I found myself in the immediate presence of a very young and pretty girl, who was sitting reading, or pretending to read, at the foot of a large maple-tree whose branches overhung the water. Being a Boston man, my first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat...
...Pluto's scrubby beard and all the stars of Olympus and the Boylston," shouted Epaminondas, "ye may be asy, me byes, 't is four aces I have! Whoop! whirra! "???! Well, I should cough!" And the general smiled a smile more dreadful than his own dreadful frown, and added that it reminded him strongly of Leuctra...