Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...luck with the bass, - a fish which is, as every sportsman knows, as "uncertain, coy, and hard to please" as woman is, or is said to be, - and partly of the college whose towers rose above the trees before me. I was casting a pretty mystery about its sweet girl graduates, and wondering whether their ways of life and methods of thought were like ours, and whether - still more important - they were good-looking...
...never been my good fortune to know one personally. As I walked along absorbed in speculations upon the probable characteristics of these maiden collegians, I was startled by a slight cough, and upon looking up I found myself in the immediate presence of a very young and pretty girl, who was sitting reading, or pretending to read, at the foot of a large maple-tree whose branches overhung the water. Being a Boston man, my first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat; but, upon perceiving my intention, the maiden, somewhat...
...last one is "Jessie," and Jessie appears to be a New Hampshire girl that he met when he was on that tramp last summer. He talks about her as if she were a dryad, or naiad, or something of the sort, and exhibits a cardinal flower that he says formed part of a garland with which he twined her brows. He wrote a poem about her, too, and has got it published in the Echo...
...retiring girl so called ? Because, like a skilful general, she retreats to draw the enemy out of his defences...
SAMUEL J. TILDEN.GENTLEMEN, - Your invitation is doubtless a proof of your sincere admiration, but I would have you know that I am a Yale girl, and adverse to attention from any other quarter...