Word: heard
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...anybody can afford to cut him, but the whole world laughs at him behind his back. Now I don't happen to know your friend Smith, but from your account of him I strongly suspect that he is a brother of my old classmate, of whom you have often heard me speak. He had a great deal more money than he knew what to do with; and, as a natural consequence, he patronized the best (i. e. most expensive) tradesmen that he could find. His clothes were always of the newest cut; his cravats a week or two ahead...
...second ten of the Everett Athenaeum are Messrs. H. P. Bissell, N. M. Brigham, G. C. Cutler, J. M. Gardiner, J. T. Gilbert, R. Heard, H. C. Mulligan, F. B. Patten, E. Robinson, H. R. Sargent...
From the opinions which we have heard expressed upon this subject, we may state with some degree of certainty that the lack of proctorial supervision would have been looked upon by most students as a compliment paid to their sense of honor, and that the confidence thus placed in them would have been fully justified...
...have heard a rumor that Professor Bell intends to explain his invention in Cambridge, at an early date...
Knowing this, and knowing what a good-natured, good-hearted fellow Augustus really is, I was rather surprised to see a sneer on his face when he heard Smudge's name. Looking at Smudge to see the reason, I could see that he is no beauty; his hands are large and rather red, and his feet would be quite long enough for all practical purposes, without those long, tapering, curved projections which the shoemaker has been pleased to add, and which he, poor fellow, thinks rather a nuisance, but one which must be endured for the sake of fashion...