Word: footing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mastering the art, so I still writhed along. But now comes the saddest chapter in this mournful tale; a very sad chapter, and of course there's a woman in it. It was a melancholy day for this innocent, unsuspecting world of ours when a feminine foot first pattered its little, ill-omened imprint into its soil. Adam was going along very comfortably straight until Eve put in her appearance, egging him on to mischief, and brewing generally a peck of trouble. And in the same manner I was making really commendable progress, when the door opened, and in walked...
...EDMANDS hurt his foot in the game last Saturday with the Bostons...
...hear your foot where the brown leaves...
...many fish they caught on an average with each worm. I can tell you more. I can tell you why worms crawl, why the Nine muffs, why Juniors jodel. At a lecture on the Vedas, I could have told you from actual observation the length of a Latin foot, and could have proved that the Romans wore pigtails, and had plank walks. During a lecture on the Italian classics, I proved to myself by the theory of curves that Napoleon was only Hannibal in disguise, and that the Graian Alps were so called because the Confederate States of America (whose...
...champagne; he had succeeded in hitting the gentleman opposite on the forehead with the cork, and was now spilling the foam on a lady's dress. Undoubtedly he would have poured out the whole contents of the bottle, but it accidentally slipped from his hand and fell on her foot. With many good-natured apologies, he kicked the bottle under the table and went away to get another. He was an Oshkosh Senior...