Word: move
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think that Cambridge ought to throw open her houses and say, 'Come in, all you students, and be one of the family'; but I do think she might treat these fellows as kindly as, for instance, you'd like to have your family treated if you should move into a strange place. Now when that polite young man brought my daughter's skate back to her, I 'd like to have had the girls a little more friendly to him. It would have been pleasanter for him, and I think they 'd have enjoyed...
...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...
...instant, and had the horses by the heads. They, poor fellows, were used to him as a charioteer, and were not surprised. And, amid screams of laughter, all the passengers rose from their deep bed of snow. All? No. Where is Ethel? She does not move. She lies, still and white, under the light where she fell. And they rub her hands, and put snow on her white forehead, and she does not move. And they get out smelling-salts, and send up to the house for brandy, and she does not move. And I went away, and leaned against...
...deigned not move in her majestic seat...
...that glorious popularity which is going to carry you through the world so beautifully. In certain classes of society a man who declares his friend to display a lack of elegance in taste is knocked down and kicked; in the higher walks of life in which you move, he is voted an insufferable prig and is avoided by everybody but eccentric people who court the society of social outcasts...