Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...know not whether thou wouldst sadly drink...
...will be a "glorious year for America" if bells, cannons, and newspapers can make it so, I caught the Centennial fever! Every historical spot, from the "dead man's swamp" to the battle-field of White Plains, was sought out with patriotic zeal. I even tried to stop and drink at every old farm-house where Washington is said to have refreshed himself, but I gave it up. (G. W. must have been uncommonly thirsty...
...employment which requires no exercise of the intellectual powers. How many hours we fritter away in a hundred employments that we might devote to the permanent improvement of the mind! But engaged in attending to this base body of ours, we forget all higher aims. We eat, we drink, we walk, we loaf, we dance, we take off and put on our European clothes, we sleep, we busy ourselves with Eastlake furniture, when we should be cultivating our minds...
Within its inmost breast, we drink our fill...
...Chinee they still drink...