Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...still he does n't pretend to know...
...Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more so in the case of a college faculty. It is so hard for young men to think themselves into the position of older people, that fault-finding...
...further corner. "Ain't he got funny hair?" said he, pointing at his victim. "His mamma forgot to put a pin in HIS ribbon," smoothing a blue bow at his own throat. A few remarks then ensued between his aunt and grandmother, and then followed, "Oh, I know Mrs. Smith." "Yes, dear." "Yes, and she's just got a little boy; God sent him down from heaven." Then reflectively looking at me, "Did HE come down from heaven?" Here his relatives judged it best to walk the rest of the way, and left...
...would know what has me sent...
...good novel. Are you fond of novels? But I suppose they are forbidden in the college." " Nothin's forbidden, 'cept young men," replied she; "and I don't take much stock in novels, anyhow. There ain't enough meat to 'em, - lot of girls and men that don't know anything, nor can't talk about anything 'cept each other and love; oh! awful stuff...