Word: doors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...house, the snow beating against the window-panes, and the whistle of the draught in the chimney. In such a night and at that late hour I did not expect any one would drop in. I was therefore rather surprised when I heard a knock at my door, and saw a stranger come in. His appearance was certainly remarkable. He was young, but dressed in a very old fashion. Buff boots and black-velvet knickerbockers adorned his legs, while a blue coat and brilliant red waistcoat covered the upper part of his body. He took off his large slouch...
...began to grow monotonous. I said, "Look here, old fellow! I'll just write down all those things, such as how old I am, how much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that you need not bother yourself to come in here when you want to find out, you know." No go. He came in just the same. The only result has been to give him a great idea of my superior wisdom, the consequence of which is that he appeals...
...EDITOR OF THE CRIMSON:-WE have the right given us, as you know, to have our rooms cleaned under our own personal inspection, on condition that we comply with certain requirements, such as giving notice of our intention at the Bursar's office, and posting a notice on the door that the room has been cleaned. Now I would like to know why, after this has been done, the rooms are still entered, through the transom, if there is a Yale lock on the door, and generally small movables are stolen. In one case which came to my knowledge last...
...about the intellectual face of a student; that one looked like a dolt. I should say he had stopped thinking." And I had been thinking about abstract truth and the immensity of space! I groaned, reeled, and staggered out of the car. A pedantic classmate met me at the door. "O my friend, you have committed the fallacy of composition; having empirically learned that you can carry a beer, a straight, or a Tom and Jerry singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions...
...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...