Word: eights
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THERE were to be eight of us, a double quartette; and the sleigh would hold only six. So I was to drive over in a cutter from Pike's and take the eighth voice...
...must wait till the harness is mended; it will be half an hour or more. You must take her with you, and make your horse go. You can get home in eight minutes, if you try. Mamma will know what...
...Some Juniors have had a successful game of Hare and Hounds. The start was from Whitneyville, and the finish was Mt. Carmel, about eight miles distant...
...appeared in 1807. The list of subscribers shows an extraordinary interest in Shakspere among the students in various New England colleges. At Harvard there were no less than ninety-seven copies taken, the names of Edward Everett and Richard H. Dana being among the subscribers. At Brown University twenty-eight were taken, at Dartmouth seven, and at Union seventeen...
...concert was opened at about a quarter before eight with the "Three Glasses," a rousing drinking-song, by Fischer. The sentiments expressed in this song were somewhat at variance with the surroundings, and it consequently was not as rapturously applauded as it might have been. "The Three Chafers" and "To the Bravest" were the only glees encored...