Word: look
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...left by Dailey foul tipping to Tyng. In the tenth Snigg struck out; Blogg made a base-hit, and reached second on Lanaban's out by a ball to first. Carl hit to Thayer, who fumbled, giving Blogg his third. Carl then took second, and the game began to look dark for Harvard. Cogswell hit a liner to Leeds, who muffed it and then fielded the ball widely to Wright, who caught it very prettily. In the twelfth two men were out; Tyng made a two-base hit over left field; Tower then retired by Dailey to Cogswell. Outs...
...Look here," interrupted Renardy, "why are you, an old gray haired man, travelling around the country and talking like that? How did you ever get away from your friends...
...nicely bound standard works, such as Shakspere, Milton, Macaulay, and so forth. The books all stand exactly upright, each one is in its proper place, and not a speck of dust can be seen on any of them. On seeing such a book-case in a room, I immediately look to see if my boots have left any mud on the carpet, I feel uncomfortable about my umbrella, and wish that I had left it on the door-mat outside. And when we leave, I am sure that if I listened at the door, I should hear my late host...
Though the priggish pronunciation "Inquiry" is often heard, I have never known justice to be done to discrepancy, chestnut, or hecatomb since in college, and rarely to romance, finance, research, and resource. I have no desire to discuss the much-mooted question as to where we are to look for the standard of pronunciation; we shall be undoubtedly safe if we follow the usage of the best literary society we know. New-Englanders boast that, within the radius of ten miles from the Massachusetts State House there is more "cultchar" and education represented than in any other district...
...speech all at once, for, if we did, we should be called bores; but we break it up into short sentences, and our conversation becomes spicy. And so the popular novelist does n't allow his characters' tongues to run away with them, but gives his pages an interesting look by sprinkling over them a profusion of quotation-marks. The average reader, on opening a new book, is always favorably impressed in proportion as the paragraphs are short, for from this he gathers an impression of its liveliness...