Word: etc
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...societies, association meetings, etc., would no longer be without quorums. For a small additional consideration, too, I could secure connections with the leading theatres, and thus the wearisome horse-cars would be avoided. It may be objected that one would not see the actresses, yet, if I remember rightly, the many and excellent pictures which I have seen in the students' rooms would obviate this difficulty. Think of the resident of Holworthy comfortably arrayed in smoking jacket and slippers, his favorite meerschaum between his lips, at his side a pile of pictures from which he selects the photograph...
...England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm...
...more closely bind," etc., etc...
...understand that Professor Goodwin also has signified his willingness to attend some of the meetings, and to converse upon the recent discoveries of Dr. Schliemann at Olympia, etc...
...remarked that the quotation, "A prophet," etc., is from the New Testament, - quite a different thing from the "Hebrew Scripture...