Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said, "You use some kind of hair preparation." This would have floored an ordinary man, but the representative of '84 went on undisturbed. "I never bat; in fact, none of my class-mates do." "Ah!" said she, in her sweet, coy way, "you have no Freshman nine. How nice that is, base ball is such a dangerous game!" He paid no attention to this remark, but continued, "I have no taste for the convivial life which many lead at college. I have a dog, you know; he and myself never part company; he clings constantly to my arms...
...dying to hear about the students. Well, they're perfectly horrid. They stare at one dreadfully. Of course I don't mind a slight glance of admiration, un coup d'oeil en passant, but a continued stare, though flattering, is very rude indeed. I met some very, very nice college men at a german, though, - they were extremely dignified. Some of them told me all about how they spend their time, and I think Harvard life must be perfectly delightful. One very pale man went home early. My cousin said he had to grind, because he was a law pill...
...conglomerate circumlocutions of this morning, that before me stands the maiden who will bid me rest my weary limbs in her father's palatial halls?" She replied with a disdainful glance : "Oh! I know yez, yez be one of them air students from Cambridgeport;" and turning to her nice little pet dog, she said, "Seize him, Roger." I started for the street. He seized. The remnants of my trousers I wore home under a friend's ulster...
...think she's pretty, Hal? Amy is the only cousin I've got that I care a bunch of cigarettes for, but she's nice as she can be, if I do say it." So my chum, Dick Roberts, expressed himself to me as we stood looking into the dancing parlor of the Bay View House of an evening last July. I had just arrived on the evening coach, and was gathering my first impressions of the place and people...
...first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat; but, upon perceiving my intention, the maiden, somewhat to my surprise, remarked, with more amiability than grammatical accuracy, "Wal, you ain't a-going, are you? Do I look dangerous?" Here was a nice opening for a pretty speech; but as I did not think it quite good taste to make a pretty speech upon such short acquaintance, I merely remarked, "No, you don't "(for she certainly did not), and, throwing down my rod and basket, seated myself on the grass at her feet...