Word: modestly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...several dormitories, and thus many an unsuspecting youth would be inveigled into buying the wares of the merchants. The plan was no sooner formed than executed; the students were not entrapped, but alas for the tradesmen! Morning after morning, I fancy, as each of these unfortunate people opened his modest "place of business," he turned his inquiring gaze upon the passers-by, as if seeking for a youth whose appearance betokened him as coming from the classic shades of the Square. After looking from sunrise until the mists from the Back Bay had chilled him through, he at last understood...
...first 't was his modest ambition...
...morning, as I was sitting at my study-table, drawing wisdom from the fountain of old-time erudition, and endeavoring to reconcile the conflicting opinions of two commentators who evidently looked upon each other as little better than horse-thieves, - and who shall say that they erred? - when a modest, single knock was heard at my door. It heralded a son of Israel, daintily apparelled, and resplendent in jewelry, though neglectful or ignorant of the properties of soap and water in combination; he wanted to buy my old hat, - the which and three dollars would procure one of Solomons' glossiest...
...second number of a modest little journal called the Lehigh Journal has come to hand. Let it not attempt too much, is our advice (gratis...
...modest young lady guards the portal of that famous basement in Beacon Street, and receives your fee before you enter the shades beyond. Besides this pecuniary transaction she requests you to inscribe your name in a ponderous volume. Could it be that I was thus leaving a last record for the outer world before opening that mysterious plate-glass door on which I deciphered the words "Ring the Bell and Walk in"? I began to feel slightly nervous, and to repent my rashness in coming alone. The first apartment I entered was long and low, and quite dark. It seemed...