Word: pair
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...applied my left eye to the key-hole of 93 Thayer. The apartment was brilliantly lighted, and in spite of the smoke I could see pretty well. A number of men were seated around a table; the man at the head of the table was armed with a pair of shears and a yardstick; baskets of cigarettes and kegs of beer stood at various points convenient of access. Just as I had ascertained these facts, the presiding genius rapped sharply on the table, and said, "Gentlemen, the meeting will now come to order. I suppose we had better begin with...
...linen. The president then embraced the youth, and his wife the maid. In passing we would suggest that it would have been better if he had embraced his wife and had let the youth embr - but we digress. The result of the meeting was satisfactory, and the trembling pair folded up their clothes like the Arabs, and as silently stole away...
...Happy Pair leave to-day for New Orleans...
THEO. (aside). I cannot call, for I haven't a pair...
...opposition? Because it left the tacit understanding - to which some of the officers gave even loud expression - that the "slight" change will have the practical effect of shutting out Liberal Christians. Does any sane man suppose that, before signing the constitution, a new member would search out with a pair of magnifying glasses its "fair" meaning? The constitution does not yet say that Liberal Christians may be admitted, and I assert that it does not yet dare to say so. This it is that places the Brethren in such an awkward position. A "Unitarian minister," indeed, certifies that a Unitarian...