Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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LITTLE Henry was crying. Not because he was cold or hungry, or because he had lost his top, or because his grandmamma had found it necessary to use her slipper for another purpose than protecting her aged foot. He was crying because the time to part with all the dear ones at home had come. That morning his grandmamma had taken him apart and had said, "You're getting a big boy now, Henry, and it is necessary that you go out into the world to seek your fortune. You cannot expect to live in this forest all your days...
...need any external charms to fascinate with, when your intrinsic qualities are what they are. Take my word for it; training don't pay. To put it concretely, "It ain't what it's cracked up to be." Why, look at me. I've trained! - rowed, base-balled, foot-balled; and what good's it done me? None! No sir, none! But I've grown a deuced sight wiser than I ever was before. I've learned a secret. I've learned why it did me no good; why it does no one any good; and why so many fools...
...bound to pay off now with your destruction. There is another of less truculent aspect within three feet of you. You determine to trust to its mercies. But to jump to it would be folly, for you could never get a foothold in that way. You stretch across one foot to it while the other is still engaged in "rastling" with the first log. Now how to get the second foot over? You are fearful of slipping. Yet the new support seems to maintain its composure and sobriety. You can surely count upon it. Vain hope! These...
...drum-major, or grand-marshal, with a huge bearskin cap and baton, followed by two students; the elegist, with his Oxford cap and black gown, and brows and cheeks cropped so as to appear as if wearing huge goggles; four spade-bearers, six pall-bearers, with a six-foot coffin on their shoulders. They looked poverty-stricken: their hats, with rims torn off or turned in, bore the figures '63 in front; their apparel being such as is suited to the tearing football fight, and their left legs having crape on them. "The procession moved on," says John Langdon Sibley...
...taking second place. Williston was started 10 yds., behind the rest, the number of starters rendering it impossible for all to start in the same line; and, in addition, he was badly fouled at the start by the man who started the bicycle directly ahead of him getting his foot in front of Williston's wheel. The result was that he lost at least 25 yards, and the exertion necessary to catch the others at first was too great a strain for him to do himself justice at the finish. He rode a plucky race and deserves great credit...