Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Elect forty-seven hours, and don't specify what are extra. Then you'll have thirty-seven cuts a week. Five dollars, please. I think we will have a very pleasant day. Good morning...
...have since had reason to suppose that I only saw the gentleman's clerk, but the advice is good enough to follow. But, O Lord, I hope the Advocate is not mistaken...
...which requires no further reading than the first book of the Aeneid to set right. After that, considerations of the general style, transference of thought, building up of sentences, are superfluous. There is so much fatally bad that it is not worth asking if there is anything good...
...last Crimson, are apt to expend all their strength in banging the water at the beginning of the stroke, and then make a weak and slovenly finish. The firm grip on the water, instantly got on the full reach, should be followed clear through by a good, vigorous, even stroke. The hardest part of this stroke, unless the man makes a jerk in the middle, must be at the beginning, because there the greatest resistance is obtained; and there the greatest strength must be applied, and applied instantly; for a light boat, if touched gently, slips away before a satisfactory...
...egges, beer, and good bolognes...