Word: hear
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been grinding until late, and to rest my mind before retiring for the night, had taken up the "Verses from the Advocate." I could hear the wind blowing round the corner of the house, the snow beating against the window-panes, and the whistle of the draught in the chimney. In such a night and at that late hour I did not expect any one would drop in. I was therefore rather surprised when I heard a knock at my door, and saw a stranger come in. His appearance was certainly remarkable. He was young, but dressed in a very...
...some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that such an arrangement would be pleasant here. But as I have had no opportunity to consult the powers that be in regard to this matter, I can only offer a few suggestions, which I should like to hear discussed...
...same time, as I said before, you will find the moral tone of your surroundings very different from tone of your home. You will hear things said and see things done, which you have always been taught to regard-with holy horror. For example, I will speak of drunkenness. I am familiar enough with the views of your mother and of your great-aunt Lucretia upon this matter to know that you, who have passed a good portion of your life in the society of those ladies, went to college with an idea that a man who had ever succumbed...
...echo from the shelf I hear...
Perhaps I am sentimental, but I like, too, after an evening spent in company with the fair sex, to compare notes before the glowing coals, and, while composing myself for sleep, to tell, or hear told, an incident or two as to what "he said" and "she did." And often the pleasantest memories of college life are these hours spent with gas turned down, - hours filled with words that can only pass between friends that have played and worked together, for only to such do we like to unbosom ourselves of plans for play and work in the future...