Word: frees
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...neighbors in general, the first relative to a mother's feelings, and, failing to receive an answer, the next whether any one had anything about them to keep a poor widow from fainting. It transpired shortly after that Miss Flynn, affected by the solemnity of the day, had given free license to a craving appetite; and, having inadvertently fallen asleep, had been propped up against a neighboring pillar, whence she was rescued and dragged away by her friend the Baked Apple...
...hundred and fifty pounds a year is a low estimate of the average annual value of a fellowship; so that the annual expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge for Fellows, who in that capacity are bound to no service to the University, and are free to follow their own pursuits, whether they be literary or otherwise, cannot be reckoned at less than...
...Tickets free; to be obtained as follows...
...dinner hour. I sauntered through the dim hall, and read the names upon the tablets. Free from the anxiety which had made me oblivious to all the beauties of the building upon my first visit, I was now in a mood to feel the deepest patriotism. But when I found myself regretting that I too had not graduated in time to fall at Gettysburg, I thought it best to interrupt that train of thought, and so I hurried up the dark stairway to the gallery...
...study in the Library is no longer hindered by confusing noise, impassable bars, and the monotonous cry "Time to close the Library, as 't is sunset" will indeed be a time of long-sought comfort to every student. The suggestion about the alcoves is worthy of consideration; that about free criticism is almost unnecessary...