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Word: nicely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rusher line as a whole plays with a noticeable lack of spirit and determination, and is a sad contrast at present with those which made Yale famous in the rushing game. They seldom not nice in the past two days stop a kick. and are so eager to get down the fiord that they do not protect the halfbacks sufficiently for the kick. In lining up to put the ball in play they are in general above reproach, but at times, especially after a hard run. they seem disposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Yale Eleven. | 11/7/1884 | See Source »

...poor man is "grinding" in his room, suddenly he hears the step of "Billy" in the hall. The letter-slide clicks and in come two or three letters, one in particular, with a nice envelope, sealed, and addressed in a fine feminine hand. It naturally is opened first. Fine tinted cards drop out, and a note is enclosed, engraved on a superior quality of paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our University in a Worldly Point of View. | 11/5/1884 | See Source »

Senior (to freshman) : "I suppose you know we are not going to have chapel any longer." Fresh. : "Is that so? Won't that be nice! But why are they not going to have chapel any longer!" Senior (grinning): "Because it is long enough...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/26/1884 | See Source »

...stratum of slush so soft and nice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GEOLOGICAL. | 1/31/1884 | See Source »

...times been alarming enough to drive him into a shop or up a lane, and he had not survived the creation of the first batch of married fellows. How he had got into this thoroughly wrong paradise was a mystery which he made no attempt to explain. "A nice place this, eh?" he said to me; "nice gardens; remind me of Magdalen a good deal. It seems, however, to be decidedly rather gay just now, don't you think so? Commemoration week, perhaps, a great many young ladies up, certainly; a good deal of cup drunk in the gardens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROFESSOR IN AN EASTERN PARADISE. | 1/30/1884 | See Source »

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