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Word: heard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...heard the wicked creatures swear, but heeded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERCEPTED. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

...recent chemistry lecture the professor succeeded in freezing water contained in a red-hot crucible, a feat which so charmed a certain Freshman that he was heard to exclaim: "How delightful to have such a man for my companion in the future life!" It will be seen at once that the Freshman atones for his irreverence in regard to the professor by the modest estimate of his own deserts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

Astonished I listened, and heard him mutter low with a half-smothered sigh...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LINES. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

DEAR SUE: The ordinary course of college life is tame enough, but occasionally something occurs to break the monotony. The other night loud screams were heard issuing from the west entry of Holworthy. Of course we turned out en masse to see what the matter was. It appeared, on investigation, that one of the girls in that entry had been frightened out of her wits at seeing the ghost of an old professor who used to occupy her room twenty or thirty years ago. According to her story, he scowled at her fearfully, and gruffly bade her vacate immediately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A LETTER. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

...long conversation. A college paper, however, furnishes a place in which communications, from all members of the college, can be printed, and men the most unlike can thus exert an influence on each other far more effective than any likely to result from disjointed remarks, such as are usually heard in the course of an evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WRITING FOR COLLEGE PAPERS. | 2/21/1873 | See Source »

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