Word: got
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...undergraduate, under examination at London, was missing question after question. At last, the examiner got irritated, and said: " I declare, I've got a dog at home that could answer the questions that have been given to you." "Have you really, sir?" said the undergraduate, blandly. "May I ask if you would sell him?" - [Ex.] The above item appears to lack point. But it bears an English trademark and so we are quite sure it is "good form...
Student - "Well, that's what the author says, anyhow." Prof. - "I don't want the author, I want you." Student - "Well then you've got...
...been here some time. I got mighty tired livin' a la cart, you know, hangin' on wherever I got a chance, so I thought I'd try this for awhile...
...know Shakspeare by heart. I'd ruther hear him in the original, like my friend Salviny; but you've got to excuse me now; I'm goin' to lecture before the Woman Suffrage Society with my friend Ker'nel Higginson - I'm goin' to carry the pitcher of water on the stage" - and, rubbing his ancient beaver on his shiny coat-sleeve, Dan'l bowed the reporter...
...young man who had independently prepared himself in sixteen months, and who came to Cambridge with a capital of $10 and passed the examinations, told me the reason he selected Harvard out of the four hundred colleges of the country: "I got by accident an old dictionary of American biography and read it through, and it seemed to me that most famous Americans had been educated at Harvard...