Word: lived
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...sentences which have taken the place of the old mouth-filling and earappalling hurrah. We shall deserve no respect at the throats of hurrahing nations, and we shall even be despised by the Frenchman, who although he tries to cheer by expressing a wish that somebody or something may live, has at least never descended to "rockets," or to such hideous yells as "Willyums, yams, yums...
Hanlan, the oarsman, proposes to live in Boston after his journey round the world...
Speaking of the selection of rooms, Dr. Wilder says that you must be sure to obtain plenty of sunshine as well as to avoid dampness. It is well also to be sure that the drinking water is pure and that the plumbing is in good order. To those who live in private boarding houses, as many do here, this is a useful injunction...
According to Ruskin, an educated man ought to know these things: First, where he is-that is to say, what sort of a world he has got into; how large it is; what kind of creatures live in it, and how; what it is made of, and what may be made of it. Secondly, where he is going-that is to say, what chances or reports there are of any other world besides this; what seems to be the nature of that other world. Thirdly what he had best do under the circumstances-that is to say, what kind...
...Scotland, instead of public schools there are parochial schools. The university is in a city where the students, poor, live by their wits, living scattered about as our freshmen are obliged to do. Instruction is given mainly in lectures, examinations are lenient...