Word: heard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...confused, but our further triumph is cut short by the questions of the fair ones. "Do you have rooms like this at Harvard?" "Oh, yes," we reply, as we gaze aghast at the oil paintings, damask curtains, satin upholstery, and statuary that surround us. Here a suppressed sneer is heard and we at once move out into the corridor. We go to the library, a wilderness of black walnut shelves, glass doors, carved tables, Ouida's novels, and long haired grinds. We snub the library, but maintain silence when we are informed that "you can get in, even after four...
...great deal 'o pains in what we does. Why, sor, I makes some 'o my rooms looks jest so sweet'nd pretty loike that yer wouldn't know' em, sor. I have a way o' leavin' the dust on things, sor, a purpose. Yer see, sor, I onct heard that a good painter always made his pictures look kind 'o dusty loike. That, sor, 's why I have the dust in some 'o my rooms, becus it makes 'em look loike rale nice paintings. Thin, too, sor, it makes 'em look more antique loike. Let me till...
...play one or two of that master's. Since the number of concerts in Cambridge is only six, it is almost too bad that they should be entirely taken up with novelties; the Mendelssohn symphony of last night was the first standard work of the kind that has been heard here this year. The new things are interesting for a change but it seems desirable that the older and better known works should form the basis of our Sanders Theatre programmes...
...Freshman coming out of an examination in mathematics was heard to exclaim, "O dear! Thunder! ! Confound it! ! !" Then turning to his companion, be said apologetically, "It does a man good to swear sometimes...
There was once a man with very powerful eyes, who could read by starlight and never even required a light in the greatest darkness. Now it happened that a party of wise men were passing through the country where the man with the powerful eyes lived. They heard of his great power, for his fame was spread through all the land, and searched him out and persuaded him to join them in their travels. They came to a country where there was no sun, and he was their guide; they descended into the deep dungeons of old castles...