Word: missing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with elbows seemingly enlarged for the time; women with bandaged faces, and women without, but bearing marks of one life-long toothache. What I particularly noticed was the grief that seemed to pervade all. One woman with a face like a baked apple called in the greatest despair, unceasingly, "Miss Flynn, O Miss Flynn !" Presently she burst into tears, and propounded two questions to her neighbors in general, the first relative to a mother's feelings, and, failing to receive an answer, the next whether any one had anything about them to keep a poor widow from fainting. It transpired...
...Miss, that the leading characteristic of the student is conceit. I grant it. But if you have ever taken an opera-glass into Memorial Hall gallery, do not make the accusation again. When a man becomes accustomed to being watched while at his meals, he is soon ready to believe that every glass is levelled...
...said I, "but don't you think you will miss the fellows, particularly your classmates? And what do you say to college life? Don't you enjoy that...
When I reached home I found the ladies going up stairs to dress. I seized my sister Alice, and made her promise that Miss Ethel should be late. Such was my simple plan of battle...
...when at last the two girls came down, I resolved on a bold move in the face of the enemy, and asked the fair Miss Ethel if she would go with my detachment, and was bearing her off in triumph when the dragon stopped us with hurried explanations that a cutter-sleigh was the coldest thing in the world, and that Ethel could not bear it; in fine, that she, the Widow Earl, would and should sacrifice herself and ride with...