Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Charles River Bank is not exempt from that most strikingly inconvenient feature which most small country banks exhibit: we mean the discount of from ten to twenty-five cents on checks on other banks, when cashed for those who do not keep a deposit there. This is intended as an inducement to keep an account there; but as this is inconvenient to a great number of students, we should like to suggest to the proper authorities of the College, that in the Bursar's office a sufficient amount of cash be kept on hand to enable students to have checks...
...mean git hitched," she answered, laughing in her delicately coquettish way. "I'm sorry to have to crawl, but - it can't be helped. I'm looking out for further opportoonities. I want to grow - morally and intellectooally. No, siree...
...fractured members from debris of boot jack, murmurs incoherently, "Kiss me, mother, ere I die." "Get up, you drivelling idiot," I muttered, "and for the love of heaven collect me a bottle of seltzer." Chum exits, muttering something about "O tempt us! O more ease," whatever that may mean. Never suspected it before, but think chum has been drinking...
...though it may appear to be wrong, and without the slightest addition on the part of the collector. The collector must also be careful not to push leading questions so far - in case what is delivered is unintelligible or fragmentary - as to vitiate the spontaneous operation of memory, I mean, make the reciter fancy that something is remembered which has really been suggested. He ought to note any explanations offered by reciters, and to record those bits of narrative with which they may eke out an imperfect remembrance of the verse. The copy that has been taken should be read...
...have written you, having been occupied with Freshman conditions, and with the divine Saidie. The former have taken up nearly all my days, the latter, the best part of my evenings. But I do not intend to criticize her, as you have probably seen enough notices of her. I mean in this letter to give you some hints as to your conduct when you come to Harvard next year. I think I can do so more impartially than any one else now, for I have so nearly reached the end of college life that I can look upon its failures...