Word: donning
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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"'O Tom!' she gasped as soon as he freed her, 'don't you know the folks will hear you?'
"'I don't care if they do,' he boldly asserted. 'Don't you suppose I've got the right to squeeze you, you beautiful witch?' And, before the unhappy girl could save herself, he had her again in his impetuous embrace."
Again, don't think it absolutely necessary to smoke and frequent the theatre to excess, and drink to the injury of your health. Temperance is not wholly out of date here.
If you do poorly in an examination, say nothing about it, or you will be set down as a fool. If you do well, say still less, or you will be considered a conceited grind. If you decide to go into athletics, take rowing, for you know it has become...
From here you will go, with your deeds upon your head, if you find it convenient to carry them in a low-crowned hat (don't waste your beaver on the unappreciative ???, wait until you are surrounded by Sophomores), to the gentleman who behaved unkindly to the Merchant of Venice...