Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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PROFESSOR JAMES'S lecture on the "Use of Stimulants" deserved a larger audience than it called out. Those who attended have no reason to regret having heard the closing lecture of a very successful course...
...often heard him mentioned, and I knew that he was expected to visit Centre Harbor sometime before the end of the summer; therefore I was not greatly surprised at the news...
...imagine that this made no little sensation, not only in the college, but in the entire vicinity. I can honestly affirm that I did my best to unlock the door of this secret mystery; but my wildest conjectures resulted in no inkling of the truth. Indeed, I have heard it whispered that there were those who remotely connected ME with his disappearance; but the rumor did not reach my ears to disturb me then. Besides, I do not doubt but my haggard and harassed appearance during these terrible days may not unjustly have given rise to some such indistinct suspicion...
...Muzzey may have heard the above dark hint from the same authority who furnished him with the information that "the walls of old Massachusetts, with the portraits of so many worthies as look down on the spectacle, contain enclosed for all time the gilded trophies of victory by the oar and ball...
...Until I heard a rustling in the brush...