Word: fondly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lively with the practising nines and various teams of cricket, lacrosse and tennis players. The curious will now find amusement in going to the boat-house and seeing the Class and 'Varsity crews. Bicyclers, too, will soon be able to enjoy their rides over smooth, hard roads, and those fond of pedestrian jaunts in the surrounding country have already had several pleasant days on which to indulge their fancy. Unless there is an unexpected change in the weather we may hope for a speedy activity among the lovers of athletic sports...
...Fond they are of One-an-other! What are they Say-ing? "The Cou-rant is over-topped by no Paper on our Ta-ble." "The Ath-e-noe-um car-ries off the Palm." No, children, it is not a Mu-tu-al Ad-mi-ra-tion So-ci-e-ty. It is only an As-so-ci-a-tion for the Man-u-fac-ture of Soft Soap. See how they Slap one-an-other on the back, and cry "We are the Cheese." No, you must not tell them to Cheese...
Precocious children - "I know," said the little girl to her elder sister's young man at the supper table, "that you will join in our society for the protection of little birds, because mamma says you are very fond of larks." - [Philadelphia Bulletin...
There is an idea prevailing in the breast of many men who are fond of "fun" of a more boisterous kind, that a Cambridge policeman is a pitiless avenger of students' escapades, whose only desire is to lie around corners and get students into trouble. If such persons would call upon the veteran policeman whom we found in the station the other day when we were investigating the "small-pox scare," all of his fears of this monster would be dispelled, and he would find him a pleasant, rugged-faced man, glad to talk on subjects best suited...
...explained it (we are told) as follows: "Oh, that unfortunate saying! It will become historic, I suppose," and the long curls shook, and the whole frame of the aesthete quivered, as he enjoyed a hearty laugh. "You know I wanted to see a big storm. I am very fond of the sea, and I have been at sea in very rough weather. I wanted to see the fury of an Atlantic gale." And to the question as to what reception he had met with from his audiences, he answered: "If you mean those scholars at Boston (laughing heartily), that...