Word: mites
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...point to the walls of the Library, against which clinging vines have been planted for at least a score of years, is sufficient. The magnificent display of green foliage hiding the gray stone is justly admired by all who see it. But cannot the next graduating class add their mite to this magnificent display without saying anything about it? Will not the vine last just as long if its roots are not watered with a dissertation upon the Whole Duty of Man and the Scholar in Politics...
...have winter there we have it in earnest, and there is usually plenty of snow, ice, ay, and cold; we don't very often have any of your Boston half-and-half winters, where it is so cold that you cannot keep warm when there is not a "mite" of snow on the ground. Are you not ashamed of yourselves when you see these moonlight nights - in January, let me remind you - going by without the enjoyment of a single sleigh-ride, or anything else which winter should bring...
...bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still the calf kept a "leetle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience; Bill madly pulled the throttle for a final spurt, when, quite unfortunately, - sp-t-t-t-r, - the boiler ripped, all the water trickled helplessly out, and the driving...