Word: friend
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Just before I left to return to Paris, I received a short note from the Doctor, asking me if I would not kindly take charge of a lady friend of his who was going by the same train to Paris. Arrived at the station I found the Doctor had established his friend in a carriage, and was waiting to introduce me. After returning from buying my ticket I was surprised to find a most peculiar odor in the carriage, but the Doctor quickly explained that it was nothing but the odor of a strong dose his friend had been obliged...
...replied with a disdainful glance : "Oh! I know yez, yez be one of them air students from Cambridgeport;" and turning to her nice little pet dog, she said, "Seize him, Roger." I started for the street. He seized. The remnants of my trousers I wore home under a friend's ulster...
...their support, it is only natural that the subscribers should wish to have a voice in the election of a manager; as well for the satisfaction of seeing their money spent by a man whom they consider a good business man, as for the pleasure of seeing a friend hold the place. If the subscribers in the Football and Base Ball Clubs had a voice in the election of a manager, as is practically the case in University Boat Club and Athletic Association elections, the number of subscribers would undoubtedly be raised; provided, at the same time, that only subscribers...
...guide to show him the way to Fairfield, a village about sixty miles distant, as very important business demanded his presence there. Uncle consented to do as he wished, and asked me to act as guide. Upon closer examination I found the stranger to be my old friend Buttons, who had risen from the low station of policeman to the rank of detective...
...myself. The pony was an easy riding animal, but the mule was a perfect terror, and the most severe bit could not begin to hold him. Determined to have some fun with the detective, I put on the mule the bridle with the snaffle-bit, and, after assuring my friend of the gentleness of the animal, requested his lordship to mount. He told me he had no fears, as he considered himself a very good rider; but no sooner had he thrown his leg over the animal's back than the mule started, first with five or six buckjumps...