Word: holds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said the stout gentleman, "that you Cambridge people hold off so, with your whole families, from the students? When our girls were at Andover, they used to see the Academy students, and have honest, healthy fun with them; and when my girl was getting ready to come down here, she looked forward, as any real live girl would, to having good times with the College students. But now she 's been here a week and only met one; and that one was the professor's son, who called with his father; and she says he asked her if she thought...
THERE were to be eight of us, a double quartette; and the sleigh would hold only six. So I was to drive over in a cutter from Pike's and take the eighth voice...
...Hold up a minute!" I interrupted. "But I thought you said that your hat blew...
...Boating Association has decided that it is advisable to hold a Fall Regatta...
...that this is a proposal both seasonable and practicable. In a few weeks the annual Thanksgiving migration will begin, and many, we are sure, would be glad to avail themselves of excursion tickets such as those lately used by the Fifteen. If such tickets were issued, to hold good for two weeks, they would be eagerly bought at Christmas also. It is a pity that something of this sort is not done. The main question probably would be, Who is to do it? Let our public-spirited correspondent start a list at Whiton's or Sever...