Word: hired
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Master of the Rolls - for whose functions we refer the curious to the students of History VII. - has forbidden the proprietor of the Cambridge rink to let out for hire skates of any description. The undergraduates are consequently in despair...
...seats last year finds it impossible to erect them for a single day at a smaller price than $75, - three times what he gave for them. To prevent non-subscribers from occupying the seats, it has been found necessary to rope in a portion of the field, and to hire police-officers to guard it against intruders. The result is that the game with Brown on Saturday involved the following expenses...
...College for the investment, Mr. Blakey is to hire the building on a lease of five years, at 10 per cent of the whole cost to the College, the College repairing. This, or something very like it, Mr. Blakey is willing to do, if the clubs decide, in the next year's agreement, to pay him $ 16.50 a m m, instead of $ 15.00. That is $ 1.50 for the use of lockers and bath-room...
...boat soon stops at a place called Lille-hammer. I understand from my guide-book that I must hire a horse and carriole here for Drontheim. Do not know what a carriole is, but step out on the wharf and call for one loudly. A ragged urchin soon drives up in a curious-looking low gig, with long and slender shafts, inserted between which is a wonderful horse. Wonderful, because, although apparently dead, he is yet really alive. Boy talks volubly in a gibberish quite unintelligible, but as I catch the word "carriole," I conclude that it must...
...river about the 1st of July, and after struggling up the rapids, congregate in the "pools" to rest for a fresh start. These pools come at intervals of from five to eight miles in the river, and are, of course, the best places for fishing. One can hire the use of a pool from the proprietor for a week or two, and some of the best cost as much as fifty dollars...