Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Those of the four-oars are to be selected by the captains from the members of their own club, barring those who have pulled in the six-oars...
...sight of four or five hundred intelligent young gentlemen seated at table, and calmly discussing roast-beef and the leading topics of the day, is pleasing in itself. The architectural glories of the newly opened edifice double the charm, while the more or less cracked and clouded visages of our white-wigged ancestors lend the dignity of antiquity to the scene. The architect has kindly provided the public at large with a most desirable stand-point for regarding this spectacle. The number of respectable hats and bonnets which appear in the gallery as dinner-time approaches bears witness...
...Class of '76 owe $ 232, making a total of about $ 1,800 credited to the Club. It is estimated that about $ 400 will be realized from the rent of the boat-rests and admission fees to the Club, leaving a deficit of $ 1,300, to be raised from the four classes according to the division provided for in Art. VIII. Sec. 3 of the Constitution...
...conversation," so give up the fire, and study the food vocabulary in my manual. The only word which I can pronounce successfully is "Kjod," which means "meat." I ask carelessly for "Kjod." She says "Ja," and goes out, but soon returns and sets before me a large plate containing four different kinds of bread, - dark rye bread, light rye bread, Graham bread, and white bread. Pretend that this is what I ordered, and eat heartily. Have a variety at any rate...
...higher. Time by my watch now one o'clock. Am determined not to go to bed before dark, so continue studying my phrase-book. Read also my Herbert Spencer, and several other entertaining books in which I was conditioned last year. Sun keeps growing higher and higher. Finally at four o'clock by my watch several men appear in the yard. Among them an English tourist. I know him by his huge field-glasses and numberless portmanteaus. He gets into a carriole. While the men are harnessing the horse, I ask him for the correct time. He says, "Four...