Word: glass
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heard something said, as by a calm, gentle, trusting voice; and I noticed that Dick recognized the voice. "My mother," said he. We listened: "Yes, Dick is a dear boy; he never touches a drop of wine." Dick looked a little uneasy, and laid down the glass of champagne he had been drinking. The rest of us felt a trifle uncomfortable, not knowing what might be coming. "He promised me he would n't, and he has never broken his word." Dick's face turned very red. "But he does n't like to offend his friends at college...
...week they have their faces painted white with a mixture of froth and fire-water. I was curious to visit such a barber's shop, and what did I see? Three men were stretched out full-length and wrapped up in towels, with shut eyes, lying opposite a looking-glass. They probably wished to see how they looked when asleep. Some must have been in a fainting-fit, or at least fast asleep, for, though rubbed and scrubbed by other men, they did not mind it at all, but remained very quiet...
...visitors to the Library of engaging in conversation when in the main hall or study-room has become so annoying that the authorities have been compelled to put a notice forbidding them to enter this room. Mere sight-seers are requested to view the inner hall through the glass doors of the Exhibition room, to which the class albums and all other objects of interest have been removed, and they can there be examined without disturbing any one. Whether this regulation is observed or not depends largely upon those students who take friends to the Library, and it is hoped...
...study there at any time; the continual passing to and fro renders connected study almost impossible. Now, if visitors were excluded, this disturbance would be greatly lessened. There is nothing remarkable to be seen in the reading-room, and any survey which is necessary can be obtained through the glass doors or from the exhibition room above. Almost every visitor tramps through the reading-room, but searcely one in ten ascends to the exhibition room, where the curiosities of the Library are displayed to any wishing to see them. Visitors are not admitted behind the counter of a banking-house...
Here No. 2 l gets up with a glass of water in his hand, and threatens to drown any man who mentions examinations...