Word: pair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those of you who have been accustomed to leaving your measure and having garments made to order can save by purchasing from us $5 to $15 per suit, and from $2 to $5 per pair on pants, with a much larger variety from which to make your selection, with your garments equally well made and trimmed. We extend to you an invitation to examine our stock before making your purchases...
...previous day being class day, the 22d will be a red-letter day on account of the Yale game. There is little danger, with so much fun in prospect, that many will leave before that date, and it is especially necessary that they should not, for every throat and pair of lungs in the university will be called on to support the nine in their last game for the championship. But it is of almost equal importance that a large number of persons should go down to New London to the race. The tug must not be occupied by Yale...
...fool. It is true he had a few remnants of hay-seed in his hair and wore a hat and a suit of clothes that attracted more attention on Tremont street than he expected, but he had a fair allowance of brains under his hat, and a pair of shears in the hands of a barber and a tailor of my acquaintance was all that was necessary to put him on an equal footing with most of his Boston contemporaries. And I must say that I felt rather proud of Butterfield as we strolled about town, and rather envied...
While I had only one small pair. - [Student...
...suppose the psychological explanation of all this is in the name Benjamin Emilius Butterfield. Butterfield had an unmistakable tang of "store" about it which I could not eliminate. "Emilius" bespoke an acquaintance, limited perhaps, with classic literature, and also carried with it, to my mind, a pair of spectacles...