Word: feet
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...balls we have won the past two years, and those already in it, - about forty in all. This fact, and the requirement that the case shall be made of chestnut to match the wood-trimmings in the hall, make it necessary to order a new one. A case nine feet long, six feet high, background of black cotton velvet, wire rests for the balls, sliding doors of plate glass, and the inscription carved in the top, will cost $175, - with common glass in the doors...
...chum and I were sitting on the hearth-rug warming our feet. We had been sitting there with the light out for some time, talking about house-breaking. I was urging that it was a safe and lucrative occupation; he had taken the opposite ground, and, as usual, was having rather the best...
This seemed plausible, and I told him so, but there were many conditions which he had not considered; such as - and I stopped to listen to a step on the stair, a soft and catlike step, as of one in his stocking-feet. "Some one has stolen Jones's boots," whispered my chum...
...class of '80 have returned from their suspension repentant. No stamping of feet and knocking of canes now greet the unusually green-looking Freshman on his advent to chapel...
...understand at first; she looked at her feet : her boots were who shall say how high, and no tell-tale color showed. Then she looked up at me, "But -" And then it flashed over her. Her color, deep already, rose to her forehead. She did not speak, but rose and sailed out of the room...