Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place for everything, and everything in its place.' A man at Yale nails his slippers on the wall four feet up, and then all he has to do of an evening is to wheel up his easy-chair in front of them and pull out his meerschaum." - Amherst Student...
...recollection of the fifteen-mile run last fall; but if the Athletic Association would let it be fully understood that the course is to be five or six miles, and in no case any farther, we have no doubt that we shall see again as many Hounds assembled in front of Matthews as we saw last November...
...been suggested that the four rooms in the top of Weld, which are situated in the part which has the large W, could be made much more pleasant if a window were put through in the place of the W. It would not destroy the beauty of the front; and the W might be put a little higher up. These rooms have very little light as they are now, as there are only two windows, one north, and the other south...
...Canadian backwoods girl, who could wield gun and paddle as skilfully as her hunter brother, with whom she lived in the wilderness. When I first saw her, she was speeding a canoe across the wild river that ran in front of their cabin. The apparition of this beautiful girl set the last charm upon the loveliness of the spot. The utter solitude of the forest around; the white water of the river, that mirrored the hemlocks hanging in rich tracery over its edge; the densely wooded mountains behind, that rose blue in the thin autumnal haze, - all were consecrated...
...FORMER President of a New England college, after getting a seat in a horse-car, noticed one of the Freshmen of his college curled up in front of him, and exhibiting obvious signs of vinous exhilaration. A close inspection revealed the fact that the state of inebriety was not hastily put on, like a hat, but had been worn closely, like an undershirt, for several days. For a few moments the President surveyed the undergraduate with an expression of mingled commiseration and disgust, and finally he exclaimed, "Been on a drunk !" The half-conscious student rallied his straying senses...