Word: downing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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You know how blind the gate to the Dilly's Avenue is. Well, Fred - he was driving - never can remember when he gets to it. So, as we came up the road at a pretty sharp pace, for this was our last point, I heard Mary cry, "Left, Fred, left...
IT was a very ancient-looking horse. Once, perhaps, he was black, but now only a few gray hairs were left in the corners which time had spared. I say corners purposely, for his bones and joints were so large and visible that the beast seemed like some equine jumping...
I was terrified, for the last time the beast was down, - by the way, he never lay down of his own accord, - they had to use another horse to pull him up again. The prospect looked gloomy, but I unharnessed him, and with my aunt's help drew the carriage...
PROBABLY every one of us has received a violent blow in the face from those green doors at the entrance of University. Just as you are rushing in, some one coming out is sure to drive the door between your eyes, - the result of which action is to remind you...
In watching the University Crew the visitor is much struck with the easy, matter-of-fact way in which the old men do their work as contrasted with the stiffer, more labored, and less efficient efforts of the new men. To the old men rowing seems to be the most...