Word: heard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...taking Chemistry 1 to find out how to make soda; but a friend told me that he knew no more of Chemistry after taking the course than before it, which discouraged me. And so on through the whole pamphlet, there's not a course which I have n't heard spoken against. (I must say, however, that the only objection to Botany was that it tired one so to get to recitation...
...easy task to keep posted on the latest improvements, and ignorance of the progress of education may sometimes be pardoned. Still, we felt we were behind the times when we were obliged, after reading on a catalogue the name of Drury College, to confess that we had never heard of it before. A perusal of the catalogue has given us some idea of how they furnish young ladies and gentlemen with a liberal education in Missouri...
When first I heard of Boston, Hose, I took but little stock in it. Poor ignoramus, I fancied it like our own town, - another Oronto! So I inferred from the fact that whelps are like their dams; and, by comparing little things with great, I erred most sadly. But this Boston is as much bigger than Oronto as the noble cypress surpasses the verbena...
There was a break-down in Massachusetts Hall during the afternoon, and I heard there would be a Stag Dance at midnight; but, being very tired, I hurried home, and determined to go out next week to see the rooms; so soon as I have been, I will write you, and until then, with love...
...which fully displayed the sonorous richness of his matchless voice, and at the same time the wretched insufficiency of Lyceum Hall for such a piece. In response to an encore he sang Millard's "Grand Old Ocean" in a manner which can only be imagined by those who have heard him before, and which we fear to attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though...