Word: got
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...eight-oar is being got together to row the University...
...Nine, by good batting and fielding, had everything their own way up to the fourth inning, when, by a series of terrible errors, executed by Leeds and others, the Lowells were enabled to score six runs and tie the game. But in the next inning we again got a good lead, and all went well up to the eighth inning, when a bad muff of Wright's off a pretty throw by Dow from right field, gave the Lowells three runs and the lead. But our chances were still good until the Lowells, when about to take the field, were...
...spent part of my spring vacation on the sea-shore, at my uncle's. It was cold and bleak; but I had quite a jolly time, because, you see, I've got a lot of cousins who live there, and I was the only male approaching their age for ten miles. Yes, I had a beautiful time. I used to talk philosophy to nineteen, and nonsense to twelve, and romance to sixteen; you see they acted as foils to each other, and when I was a little tired of one I would fall back on another, and then there were...
...certainly did remember the name of Rumvill, but I could n't recollect that we had been exactly brothers there. In fact, I think I remember his lifting me up by the ears one recess; and he got licked for it, too, the cowardly dog. But still I asked him to sit down, and remarked that it was a long time since then...
...some points for my electives, but he fought shy of them. He said that he 'd been cheated right through. They d said the courses he took were soft, but he found every deuced ore of them deuced hard. Then we veered back to sporting news again, and got on that awful Yale game...