Word: like
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rich perfume, like an incense rare...
...Pharaoh's daughter like a speculator in the recent financial panic? Because she found (a) little prophet in the rushes on the bank...
Voices came, like the clear notes of the lark...
...would have aroused. The few days at Springfield, when all were moved by the same excitement, did more to bring the class together than did months of routine here. The new boating system may do much for the rowing of the new classes, but it will never accomplish anything like this...
...there is one thing that has exercised the ingenuity of the Registrar and the Steward, it must be the assignment of college rooms. All the plans that have been tried and have failed could not, for obvious reasons, be described here; but now their number, like Brummel's neckties, must be increased by one more "failure." The various systems that have been followed at different times have many supporters, and it is strange to notice that a student's estimation of them changes as regularly as he passes from a lower class in college to a higher. The favorite plan...