Word: finds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...will find husbands, I 'm sure...
...before the fall boating-season closes, in order that sufficient boats may be ready in the spring. Those who join this club, or any of the clubs now, will have the use of the boats for the next month, but those who put off joining until the spring will find that no places have been reserved for them, and they will be troubled by the lack of sufficient boats...
...find his lovely mother...
...idealist theory of Berkeley, showing themselves wise by saying nothing, - to see the man who, in college, will not take the trouble to look out of the window when the fair ones of Cambridge and vicinity are passing through the yard, now swimming some Hellespont only to find that his Hero has gone sailing with a Sophomore, - her hero ! - to see the man who, on principle, never gets excited and never swears, dividing his night in the tent into three-minute intervals of courting Morpheus and of attending the obsequies of sundry mosquitoes...
...character," may be gained by forming the habit of quietly observing the speech and customs of those with whom we happen to be thrown. The man who is always thinking so much of himself that he never thinks of other people, although doubtless he has happy thoughts, will find many a half-hour drag heavily, which this habit of observation would beguile...