Word: getting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Professor. In finding longitude at sea, how do you compare your own local time with Greenwich time? Student. Put it down and wait till you get there...
...Germany one can, at least, get good cigars," replied Tom; and his arrow was barbed, for he was smoking one of a hundred cigars that I had recently purchased of a soi-disant smuggler, who had appeared mysteriously in my room with a thousand, concealed, with peculiar caution, in a bandbox...
...required. Could not we have some modification of this rule? We might have prayers twice a day, but only be required to attend once; a provision which would accommodate both the early and the late risers. There are many in the latter class who are injured physically by getting up at six. It is easy to say that they can go to bed early; but to get to bed before ten is very difficult; and even then, if you sleep every instant of the time, you only have eight hours, which surely is not too much for any one. Then...
...have come to the scene of our sport. The lines and hooks must be small, but of the very best quality. The salmon, a most active fish, as soon as it is caught by the hook, endeavors; naturally, in every way to get loose, jumping far out of the water, darting one way and another, and finally swimming off sometimes a mile, while we have to follow all the way, running over slippery bowlders, and at times up to the waist in water, always ready to give out or take in line, uncertain whether there is ten pound or fifty...
...sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that we desire to make the United States one vast garrison like Prussia, or get into the habit of picking international quarrels unnecessarily; but all our experience tells us that a certain amount of preparation is nothing more than prudence, and that it is a poor policy to allow our military knowledge to fall to so low an ebb that a war is rendered longer...