Word: oil
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...might be made on other days. Heretofore we have been accustomed to partake of mutton once a week, and have had veal quite a number of times. Now some persons dislike mutton exceedingly, and a great many consider a mouthful of veal hardly preferable to a dose of castor-oil. When the dinner, then, is composed of one of these meats, they have but two alternatives, - to eat what is set before them, or go hungry. We see no reason why we cannot have two kinds of meat as well as one, for our meat is purchased in such large...
...that we must enter a protest. Friday was fish day, and fish we had. The recollection of it is as fresh now in our minds as the taste was strong in our mouths for the two or three days following. The fish was mackerel, and it was cooked in oil, - at least we suppose so from the fact that it was brought on swimming in that liquid, and that it was impossible to taste anything else. That the dinner was not wholly acceptable to the colored gentlemen who attend to our wants, we have evidence from the remark...
...years' standing, who was talking about the associations of college rooms and their influence on a young man's character, said that he thought that, whenever an opportunity occurred for honoring some one who had become very distinguished and had earned a special tribute from his Alma Mater, an oil painting of him should be hung in the rooms he had occupied, to be handed down from year to year as one of the permanent properties of that room. The present state of our finances would, however, make it necessary to find some less costly transmittendum to perpetuate the memory...
...that the book-learning acquired is superficial, - it is usually sound and thorough, - but the relation of this culture to the man generally is at best merely that of a coat of paint. Nor is it merely a case of scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself a gentleman, he can become the pinchbeck imitation thereof...
...oil is drawn from the neck with care...