Word: grubbing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When pious Fredricus ascended into the well-built trireme, his mind, revolving many things, determined that the yawning cavity beneath his belt was empty, and that it cried aloud for sustenance (in fact, Fredricus was grub-struck...
...West seems to be well represented. There is a quiet man from Bowdoin, and opposite my state-room there are two dropped "Sophs" from Harvard. One of them is from California, - wonderful country that! - and is addicted to punning. He told me casually that unless they gave him better "grub" than he had at Memorial, he would rough (Woodruff) the expedition...
...must first learn to read the classics, and when we can read and write them well the beauties of thought and expression will come of themselves, without our having to grub for them, which spoils the whole effect...
Greeley, '76, celebrated his 15th birthday yesterday. No grub...