Word: lave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...water can be had to solace them water so cold that it parches the skin and cracks the muscles and sends a man tottering out to the bleak entry prematurely aged like an Arctic explorer. Not so with the rugged stoic who delights, like Caesar's Germans, to lave his sturdy limbs in ice water; the streams of Socrate have turned hot ere he reaches the bath, and he may count himself happy an he is not scalded alive like a miserable shellfish. Dear Masters, why should these things...
...lave seen the nine play in their practice games so far, have criticised their play severely in one particular. They say that the base running is decidedly poor. Some of the men certainly do need to show a little more life in moving from one bag to another. In all the champion nines of last year, the men were conspicuous for their swift base running. More, the men were carefully coached while on bases, from the time they reached first until they had crossed the home plate again. No chance to gain a point was allowed to escape the notice...
...lave ye to do yer own work...
...lave them alone let us swear...