Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cross...
...leave home on Saturday, and be in Boston by Sunday afternoon. It is composed of the following men: A. J. Greenfield, W. H. Perram, W. H. Young, Helliwell, from Toronto; Harry Hope, P. Palmer, E. W. Hare, Murray, from Hamilton; Stewart Campbell, K. Eardley-Wilmot, E. H. Gough, Philip Cross, A. St. A. Smith, from Montreal; Donald M. Stewart, from Quebec; and J. Ker, from Brantford...
...less trouble there will be. We may have, some day, one standard university which it will be the aim of every college to imitate; but until that time comes it would be better for each college to work out its own ideas and restrain any innate desire to cross swords with whoever happened to differ from those ideas...
...Irishman who was engaged to cut ice from a pond, when handed a cross-cut saw to commence operation with, pulled out a penny, and, turning to his comrade, exclaimed, "Now, Pat, fair play; head or tail, who goes below." - Mirror...
...have said their life was a humdrum life at best, but a grisette has many ephemeral pleasures in her petty victories, with the counter as her Rubicon, which has no daring Caesar to cross it; she has smiles for all, and most always a kind word for all, yet her smiles and kind word bring profit only to her employer, and now and then a tear to her own eye. Of course she has her little coterie of friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little...