Word: friends
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have one thing to be devoutly thankful for, - my room has not been swept this fall. O, how I look back to those sweeping days of last year; how. I used to come to my room some cold day in January with a friend to have a chat before the fire, and find the door and windows wide open, and hear a voice come from out of the dust, saying, "I'll be through directly, sir," and she generally was. She succeeded admirably in removing the dust from the carpet and lodging it on the pictures and furniture, from which...
...every young man whose allowance or antecedents permit him to mingle with those whose social position is assured, is to rank himself at once with the best of them; and this impulse frequently leads him to the conclusion - to quote the words used the other day by a friend of mine - that "business is degrading...
July, 1774, Samuel Langdon, a devoted patriot and friend of John Hancock, was elected President, but his inauguration was omitted on account of the commotions of the period. The students were by no means unanimous in their patriotism, for history records that some of the Tories used to drink India tea in commons to show their loyalty, and that this occasioned some trouble among the students. After the battle of Lexington the militia began to concentrate at Cambridge, and the students were ordered to leave. Some of the buildings were turned into barracks for the soldiers, and the officers were...
...friend in life's morning, fair Harvard, our love...
Says Grandsir, "If that's so, my friend, I'm on your side, by dash...