Word: offs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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But College House seems to be especially exposed to fire, and the arrangement of the entries is such that, should a fire once be started, a very powerful draught would be created, which would carry the fire throughout the whole building in a very short time, cutting off all escape...
The appropriateness of the gift threw Jones completely off his balance, and I saw him part with his last pair, whereupon she departed, increased the number of children by two, again bathed her face in tears, and tried the same experiment on Brown.
Under the circumstances, we cannot blame the author for reverencing his mother, especially when she is arrayed in her jacket which is mended where it is torn; but if he would spend the time, in some lucrative employment such as saw-filing, which he wastes in torturing the ear with...
This man is held up to us as one influenced to a remarkable extent by the famoe sacra fames. Notoriety he thirsted for, and notoriety he certainly gained. Without doubt, he is the shining example of that trait so graphically expressed in the vulgate by the term "cutting a dash...
Look at that "dig," whom you have known, ever since you entered college, as the most retiring, modest fellow imaginable. Yet he goes away into some country place, and, as he gets out of his old ruts and among people where his superiority is in some respects tacitly acknowledged, you...