Word: eves
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...suffering from severe hemorrhages from the lungs, and the three remaining oarsmen are slowly recovering from typhoid fever. It will thus be seen that, on the whole, the two crews are in better physical condition than most of our professional oarsman are apt to be on the eve of a race. Harvard's boat was sawed in two for the seventh time this season a few days ago, and the Yale boat-house, with its contents, was burned for the fourth time last night. It is understood that every man of each crew has been heavily bribed to faint while...
Just as Louis XVI. loved lock making, so Charles IV. of Spain had a craze for the manufacture of sausages, which he carried on in strict seclusion in a building specially set apart for it. Lady B., a handsome English woman, true to the instincts of Grandmamma Eve, must needs peep in on his most Christian majesty. He detected the fair spy, and punished her by seizing her with his bloody hands and repeatedly kissing...
...commonplace story enough, this Posett episode turns out to be, no doubt; that on Christmas Eve the long-absent John Bond returned to his sister, to find her poor, to make her comfortable and happy, despite wretched old Jacob Hannam. Posett people despised the latter more than ever, after this...
...with entirely different inclinations and propensities, to which you must conform your own, it makes a fellow long again for those happy ante-woman days when Adam could go fishing all the morning, and play tennis all the afternoon, in the delightful consciousness that as yet there was no Eve shrieking out the kitchen window that if he wanted any dinner he'd better come home and start the fire, and he need n't use any kerosene either...
...mournful tale; a very sad chapter, and of course there's a woman in it. It was a melancholy day for this innocent, unsuspecting world of ours when a feminine foot first pattered its little, ill-omened imprint into its soil. Adam was going along very comfortably straight until Eve put in her appearance, egging him on to mischief, and brewing generally a peck of trouble. And in the same manner I was making really commendable progress, when the door opened, and in walked a young lady and young gentleman...