Word: drawerfuls
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...very kind that you is, sor. I've no more ter say, sor, exceptin" that sometimes the gintlemin is rale ganerous now. Onct, sor, I found a table drawer open just wide enough fer the loike o' me ter see in, and in there, sor, was a five dollar bill, sor. I knowed that it wus put there fer me ter see, sor, and so I tuk it, sor, jest as any xise woman'd have did. It kept me and me five chillers a hull week, sor. The nixt day afther that, sor, I got promotion. That...
During the recess some thief stole from one of the rooms in Hollis a watch which had been left that day in a drawer...
...College boys are so full of mischief that they ought to be spoken to. We shall put some of them in the "Drawer" and shut them up. It has just come to our knowledge that the learned and distinguished president of one of our colleges has been made the victim of a practical joke, which we are induced to record with the expression of our regret that the boys will do such things. It seems that the worthy president went down to Virginia, where he was personally a stranger, to attend an ecclesiastical meeting at which many eminent ministers were...
...disturbing it, the motion seemed to afford it an additional stimulus. It seemed to enjoy the exercise. Clang! clang! jang! whirr! No, shaking was evidently not the thing. I must try something else. An idea came to me. I'd smother the sound. I put it in the bureau drawer. Clang! whirr! sphiz! The thing was getting serious. If the diabolical machine kept on, Boxer might wake, and then - but I wasn't going to be balked by a mere piece of mechanism. I threw it into the bed, between the blankets. Clang! swurr! The perspiration stood on my brow...
...alone next year. Jack is a mighty pleasant fellow, and all that, you know, but I can't stand his love. He does n't make any secret of it, so perhaps you'd like to hear how he goes on. His favorite way is to go to the drawer where he keeps his treasures, and bring out some decayed peony or number eight glove, and then to fall into a rhapsody over it. "This glove, Tom, was Minnie's. I met her that summer I spent at the seaside. She was my beau-ideal...