Word: entreated
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...would suggest to our venerable but dyspeptic contemporary, the Yale Lit., that vituperation and scurrility would better become a journal of less dignity and fewer pretensions than itself. If the Lit. must wail, we presume it is all very proper that it should wail with perfect impunity; but we entreat our dear sister to show a more chivalric spirit, and not to vent its spite upon the weak and unprotected alone...
First p. p. S. Not at all. I entreat...
...entreat in vain...
...Trunk Railroads, and have had more or less experience in Cambridge horse-cars off the track, but never was so jolted in my life before. Every bone in my body is apparently dislocated. In agony I shout "Whoa" to the horse, but with no effect. I turn around and entreat the boy to stop the animal. Like an idiot that he is, he only repeats, "Shoe blacking," and persists in whipping the galloping brute. My eye-glasses shake off, and become a total wreck in the bottom of the gig. The sun is very hot and the road is dusty...