Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...BRADFORD, Asst. Treasurer.MESSRS. A. and C. Black, of Edinburgh, have in press, for immediate publication, a complete edition of the works of E. A. Poe. This collection will appear in four monthly parts, containing many new pieces, and will endeavor to place this eccentric author in a more favorable light...
...Freshman four years of study, with the advantages of the elective system, offer ample opportunity for initiation, at least, to all the principal branches of knowledge. The time appears adequate for the attainment of something in each department, and a little instruction from each of the most learned professors. When, however, three fourths of the course are passed, he finds to his disappointment that he has attained very much less than three fourths of what he estimated he should receive from his four years' work. The expected and the realized result are far from being equal. Another four years might...
...that it had been found. Away went the hunting-party over fences, ditches, and stone-walls, more after the manner of a steeple-chase than a fox-hunt. The gentlemen were easily distinguished, for the most part, by their red waistcoats and jockey caps, the ladies (for there were four) by their black dress and hat. Along the fields to the woods they move, and soon emerge on the other side just in sight. Here the trail seemed for a moment lost, but was found stretching back to the other side of the road within fifty feet of the place...
...called. It is to be regretted that such was the case, as Mr. Wiley and Mr. James, who had entered, by their creditable performance on the Saturday previous, had given the spectators reason to expect good rowing and fine time from them. The next race called was for four-oared boats. Each club entered a boat, manned as follows...
...next race for six oars was postponed twenty minutes, in the hope that the water would be less rough, but at half past four the thermometer in the judges' boat was so close upon the freezing-point that the boats were called and came into line...