Word: frees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...manner was frank and free...
...river is free from ice, and the floats at the boat-house will be in place the beginning of next week...
...Hartford are not enthusiastic enough to engage in a contest with the High School girls. It complains that many men of "considerable literary ability commit the grossest sins against syntax and orthography," and it holds that spelling-matches will reform them. The writer of this article is certainly free from the faults of the able gentlemen whom he mentions; whether he shares in any of their other characteristics may admit of dispute...
PRINCETON is in trouble, according to the Nassau Lit. It appears that, for some unexplained reason, the chamber-work in the college dormitories is done by a "clumsy, dirty set of men, who are better fitted by ability, odor, and appearance to act as scavengers, than to have free access to the parlors and bedrooms of gentlemen." This the Princeton students rightly consider a grievance. They feel the need of the soothing influence of woman's presence, and of the smoothing influence of woman's hand, - especially upon their pillows and bedquilts; and they send forth a noble appeal...
...establishment of this association will prove our sense of justice in one direction only; we shall not be entirely free from the imputation of unfairness even when we are reaping these inestimable advantages. We shall be attacked in another quarter...