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Word: crawls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the crew seem to have little to say about Harvard's crawl. It seems to be too much for them. [Acta Columbiana.] Perhaps other good reasons exist for their silence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1882 | See Source »

...crawl, I weaken, I ignominiously flunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 2/11/1882 | See Source »

...rather, what don't I know? At a Greek reading, I can tell you the style of worm they used for fishing in the Pliocene Age, and how many fish they caught on an average with each worm. I can tell you more. I can tell you why worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could have told you from actual observation the length of a Latin foot, and could have proved that the Romans wore pigtails, and had plank walks. During a lecture on the Italian classics, I proved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POSSIBLE HISTORY. | 3/11/1881 | See Source »

...mean git hitched," she answered, laughing in her delicately coquettish way. "I'm sorry to have to crawl, but - it can't be helped. I'm looking out for further opportoonities. I want to grow - morally and intellectooally. No, siree...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE PICTURE OF A GIRL. | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

...friend, or instructed him in a Senior's philosophy. The upper-class men, in fact, came and hazed him. They turned an empty water-pail upside down over his head, and smoked perique and green seal under it till he was nearly black in the face. They made him crawl under the table and bark like a dog (which he did very naturally, with a puppy-like whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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