Word: left
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thinking how I left thee late...
...ladies to the assemblies. It is our desire to correct this impression as far as we can, using as our authority the assurance of many ladies that partners are all they demand for the evening. Full satisfaction will be given the ladies by the certainty they will not be left to ornament the corners. If they are kind enough to come at all to Cambridge, it is certainly no more than courteous of us to place ourselves at their disposal, and to do all we can to make the evening pass as agreeably as possible...
...visited Lister's palace, and prefer simply to say that we have been exercising. It is allowable to take a pull on the river, or a stroll around the foot-ball ground, but during the winter "the thing" is to take no exercise at all. So the Gymnasium is left to men who do not know what a sin they are committing, and who appear to enjoy playing tenpins all the afternoon, or lifting a five-pound dumb-bell for hours together...
...what sense do you say that time is wasted?" said our host at my left; "do you mean that you don't study, or that study is not a good investment for your time...
...very ancient-looking horse. Once, perhaps, he was black, but now only a few gray hairs were left in the corners which time had spared. I say corners purposely, for his bones and joints were so large and visible that the beast seemed like some equine jumping-jack, whose tail must be pulled if you would set the legs in motion. This is but an idle fancy, for you might have pulled that tail with all your might and never produced the least result, unless, perhaps, you pulled the poor animal over. Need I say, then, that...