Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tide was running out, and a fresh southeasterly breeze made the water very lumpy. The number of spectators was not large, but there were more oarsmen for the boats than there were last spring. The rowing was neither better nor worse than usual. After the necessary delay, the pair-oared race was started. The entries were...
...getting rid of disagreeable people, which I am not rich enough to put into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to do so. The plan is very simple. All you need is a large house, a steep staircase, and a pair of hobnailed shoes. The house is a sort of decoy. You invite the man that you don't like to dine with you, or inveigle him into your power in some other way. When he comes to the house, he is led through a suite of elegant apartments decorated with paintings...
...with a playful allusion or mournful dirge over "impure thoughts." On the whole, I imagine one of the chief subjects of interest to the persons who wrote such a paper - for the persons who would read it are too few to be considered - would be the sight of a pair of checked pants, or a "caporal," with the moral conclusions drawn therefrom. We might appropriately place after this a poem on "Submission," to which the previous articles would lend a lively zest, and close with a report of the last Faculty meeting, and a table of statistics from the archives...
...snowy pair there flew...
...candidates for the University Crew row every afternoon at four and a half, and they are at present being coached in pair-oars by Mr. Loring, '69. The men run four miles three evenings in the week, but the captain expects them soon to begin to run to Fresh Pond, around the pond, and back to the Square, - a distance of six miles. A boat with stationary seats is being prepared for the crew, and the captain has ready now some uniforms, consisting of shirts, drawers, and stockings, all of crimson, that will be serviceable in cold weather. He intends...