Word: faste
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fast as runs the gre-hound in a chace...
...Fast Day our Nine made its first appearance on the field down at Lynn, where they played the Live Oaks. There was quite a large crowd gathered to see the "Oaks" polish off the Harvards; but, for Lynn, it was a very quiet and amiable assemblage. The game was one-sided and rather stupid, it being perfectly evident from the very first inning what the result would be. In the last half of the ninth inning the batting of our Nine was very good. The result of the game formed an auspicious opening of the season, being...
...Peace, on trembling pinion, fast would flee...
...gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest way to shun the extremities represented by the Western haff...
...water; the whole finish is slovenly. This fault seems to be the worst, and till it is corrected, the crew cannot hope to row the shell steadily. Next to this, comes the dead catch; and till this is vivified, they cannot hope to row the shell fast. Mr. Loring is coaching them daily from the coxswain's seat, from another boat, and from the bank. His painstaking deserves and promises to be met with considerable success...