Word: old
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Like old comrades from afar...
...with a strong blast of enthusiasm, but all with no result. I even swept the whole range of a young lady's conceits, from crimps to ceramics, and then got only a few monosyllabic replies. Surely Hercules in my shoes would have found a thirteenth labor. Yet if the old maxim properly valued silence, I had found a treasure; and I began to appreciate the sort of experience that prompted Horace to sing of his "golden Phyrra...
...been cast for a doting old father...
...graduates can testify how much a good position in various courses on the Commencement programme was esteemed and worked for, and how many Seniors, for the first time, did work, and realized profit from Senior courses. Let us return, if not this year, at any rate next, to the old system; for the reasons for altering it are not apparent, but the reasons for returning to it are both apparent and weighty...
...Like old comrades from afar...