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Word: cove (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...practicable. The alteration in the number of points that a safety and a touchdown count is manifestly a much fairer valuation than that which the old method employed. Rule 17 which reads "a player cannot be off-side play. Rules 19 and 38 as now amended seem to cove the points they bring up, much more satisfactorily than the old ones. A most judicious change has also been made in having the games for the future refereed by alumni, for it is her that a great dell of the trouble about the "rough game" is to be found. This change...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/8/1883 | See Source »

...Charles A. Dana of the New York Sun has induced Mr. William Falconer of the Botanic Garden to become his gardener at Glen Cove...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 11/19/1883 | See Source »

...appointed for this afternoon and tomorrow will be made to Gloucester and Pigeon Cove instead of to Plymouth as formerly announced. The meet will start at 1 P. M. from in front of University. All who intend going will please drop word to that effect at No. 1 Holworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD BICYCLE CLUB. | 4/21/1883 | See Source »

...looked at the old skipper. He shaded his shaggy eyebrows with a weather-beaten hand, and gazed alternately at sky and sea. "Ef I owned that boat I 'd take her round to the shelter o' the cove in a minit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...hour passed. Sundry "braces" at Carl's had made me feel more like meeting my Uncle Luther. I entered the room quietly to see what the old cove was about. By thunder, he was still looking at the pictures! When he saw me, the picture dropped, and I fancied I saw a blush his cheek. "Nathaniel," - the storm was coming; but as I began to feel as if I did n't care whether school kept or not, I lit a cigarette (he abominates smoking) and sat on the table prepared to take it, - take it, - "Nathaniel," he repeated, "these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MY UNCLE LUTHER. | 5/7/1880 | See Source »

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