Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pugilism, we are sure that every man with a healthy mind will agree with Prof. Sargent that exhibitions of pugilism are degrading. It has come to pass that the efforts of the boxers are directed to hard hitting rather than to the practice of the nice points of attack and defence. The fighters and the spectators are more delighted by a blow that draws blood than by the most skilful pass or parry. Slugging is the modern art. Boxing in public is not an exhibition of the art which gentlemen practice for the development of the body and to stimulate...
...have one two year old and one five year old Mountain sheep heads with nice horns one very large six year old buck mounted with large horns also Elk deer antelope horns a friend of mine was telling me you was wanting if so please answer and say what you are willing to give me for the same I have also texas steer and buffalo horns nicely polished for ornaments or sets for hat racks and cornicopios which I will sell reasonable and ask no pay until the goods are received and inspected and iff they dont give satisfaction...
...very nice to have beaten Yale on Wednesday, but the method adopted of celebrating the victory was no credit to the University. - Cambridge Chronicle...
...with a rebuff. When these fierce old ladies in boys' clothing invited Yale to join them in their little scheme for monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present champions. - Life. Ah, indeed...
...tables of 8 or 10 students can be accommodated with, first-class board, also nice rooms to let at Mrs. Emery's 12 Oxford Street...