Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mildly suggested that we should immediately begin the embarkation, - a long and serious task, I assured them. To which dear Mary would have yielded, but Mrs. Earl thought they would wait for the others; "and, I'm sure, Master Morris, you and I need all the heat we can get before our ride...
...Athenaeum, and get front seats. Then wait for us in the hall...
...seats were in the front row, at which he seemed taken a little aback; but he was soon put at his ease by our making him give the story of the Medea at length. He had studied it up, he said, in order to get the full benefit of the play. What a relaxation it would have been to him! But other things were in store...
...Michigan University Chronicle, which always is absorbed in some one subject of consuming interest, in its last issue discusses the beauty and general utility of "University Hall." Of the beauty we can get a faint idea from the admission by one of its defenders, that "the facade shows an incongruous mixture of wood, stucco, and galvanized iron,' and that "Mr. Ruskin might writhe in agony at the sight of the building." Without having been to Michigan, we have a fair idea of " University Hall...
...HAVE often gone to the Library to get certain books that are put aside for reference; but somehow or other these books are never to be found. I thought it strange that no matter at what hour of the day I might come, some studious individual had the start...