Word: hay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mystery, as he must have passed in full view of the attendant at the desk and all the persons in that part of the Library. He had evidently heard that the check system was to be introduced on Monday, and thought that he would make hay while the sun shone. We believe that two other overcoats have also been lost from the Library this year, besides innumerable hats and umbrellas. It would have been somewhat better, perhaps, to have locked the barn door before the horse was stolen, rather than after, but we can comfort ourselves with the assurance that...
...desk took the party to the north window, and pointed a pencil in the direction of the Hall. I was about to step up and offer my services to show them the stately edifice, when the breeze laden with sweet-scented hay softly said...
...leave the building. A scraping on the stone steps, a flutter of dresses, and a party of three ladies entered. One was bewitchingly pretty, petite, fascinating, - Cambridge was no longer dull. She seemed to come in among the musty old volumes like a breeze laden with sweet-scented hay. The ladies who accompanied her, - well, perhaps the less said, the better; suffice it to say they were not very fair, nor very fat, but very forty. The taller one carried an umbrella that might have belonged to Sairey Gamp...
...breeze laden with sweet-scented hay then timidly asked if they would be allowed to walk around the College Yard, and seemed delighted to learn that such a liberty would most assuredly be allowed them. An idea crossed my mind; would they not need a guide? Doubtless! I would offer my services. I wished that I was better posted in the history of the College; but I could easily fill up the gaps by a little invention besides, the breeze laden with sweet-scented hay would teach me eloquence. I drew nearer to the party...
...Curtis, Arthur Percy Cushing. Charles Daniels, Louis Bailey Dean, Benjamin Humphrey Dorr, Franklin Asaph Dunbar, Edward Somerville Ellicott, Irving Elting, Philip Van Rensselaer Ely, Zebina Allston Gleason, Henry Goldmark, Augustus Coe Gurnee, Charles Albertus Hamilton, Louis Hancock, John Butterworth Harding, Charles Harrington, Melvin Hasbrouck, Edward Rogers Hastings, Henry Clinton Hay, Andrew Duff Heffern, Parke Woodbury Hewins, John Russell Holmes, Charles Wells Hubbard, Edward Browne Hunt, Ernest Jackson, Lawrence Jacob, Benjamin Newhall Johnson, Edward Francis Johnson, Joseph French Johnson, Arthur Mason Jones, Walter Kessler, Philip Coombs Knapp, Nathan Ryno Smith Lanier, Rosewell Bigelow Lawrence, John Clarence Lee, Lucius Nathan Littauer, Warren...