Word: minded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thing. Last year's crew and last year's burlesque actress; certificates of admission to half a dozen more or less popular societies; a French print of a grinning grisette; at best a third-rate Landseer or two, in which the dogs and the wilder beasts unconsciously lead your mind back to sporting matters, - that is all that you will probably discover, and your thoughts will not wander a dozen miles from your cigarette...
...tired with work and want rest, it is the same. You are too tired to read, and your mind is too full to work of itself with ease. A glance at your walls will give you either additional trouble, or the relief that you desire, according as they are hung with commonplace or with good pictures...
Were varied enough to suit every mind...
...that, while they went home to a comfortable dinner in the evening, we had to come to a tea-table as meagre as our lunch-table is now, and especially that we are at that period of our lives at which we are developing most rapidly in body and mind, and that it is therefore especially important that our food should be suitable...
...have heard it stated that one of the Ward brothers happened to reside near Ithaca last spring, and that the Cornell crew pulled the Ward stroke at Saratoga. If the Era would resolve this seeming causal connection into one of mere antecedent and consequent, our mind would be at rest...