Word: lay
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...takes a seat: aside I lay...
...Trustees of your University have promised to present me with the old Gymnasium, if I will agree to connect University and the Agassiz Museum with a telephone, and lay down plank walks in the Yard. I have agreed to do this, and so the entrance to the tube will be at the Gymnasium, and the exit at the billiard-room of Parker's. The modus operandi is as follows: You sit inside of the tube on a seat like those of the rowing-machines, a wad is placed at your back, and at a given signal a Yale man kicks...
...time as lightly on us lay...
...EGGSELLENT FABLE FOR EDITORS.A Sporting Hen once made a Bet with another female Rooster that on Every Consecutive Day in three consecutive months (Sundays excepted, - for though of a Sportive Habit she did not go fast on Sundays, which Every one knows is a Feast-Day) - She would lay a successive and successful Egg, making eggsactly ninety-one in All. A critical Weasel, who liked Dropped Eggs on Toast, determined to investeggate the Performance. Now he was a Pareggrapher on a Boston evening Paper; so deserting his Post he paid a Visit to the Hendignant Chicken...
...field was shown in our game with Harvard, which was an admirable example of football proper. . . . Yale's reputation is universally known and recognized. The opinions of all who have had any dealings with her are identical, and we are sorry that it is not better. . . . The attempt to lay everything to the fact of playing with fifteen instead of eleven is decidedly weak. It seems queer that it happens only when the Yale fifteen are concerned. It does not lie in the number, but in the men themselves. It requires only a little common-sense to see this. Eleven...