Word: floor
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Freshman I drew a middle entry ground-floor room facing the south, and, spite of the pitying accents and sympathetic glances of my friends, thought myself very well off. I was warned that there were two societies in the entry, but as one was aesthetic and the other anti-atheistic, I concluded I could stand it if they could. I did n't know the vast resources of the human mind when musical...
...frowning gloom, on floor and wainscot fall...
...roomed during a part of his college course with his classmate, Mr. T. G. Appleton, in the Brattle House, occupying the room on the ground floor to the left of the entrance. He became a member of a college club, called the "Knights of the Square Table," which it seems indulged in supper-parties at Fresh Pond and Gallagher's. But Motley, though a genial companion to his intimate friends, was far from being universally popular. "He did not care to make acquaintances, was haughty in manner and cynical in mood." He cared little for the society of young ladies...
...participants in the theatricals assumed a prominent part on the floor, and "whirling in the mazy waltz" brought a pleasant conclusion to the brilliant successes of the week...
...This year I took a ground-floor room in Holworthy, thus making sure of having no one beneath me, and having ascertained that two very quiet Seniors were above me. But I did not enjoy my peace of mind two hours. I had no sooner thrown myself on my lounge to think over my comfortable prospects, than I was startled by a tremendous yell of 'Jim' just outside my window. As my name happens to be Jim, I thought that there must be some very urgent need of me, and flung open the window just in time to hear...