Word: pill
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...shillelagh, never misses fire. The simple fact that boxing teaches self-reliance to a boy ought to be recommendation enough to paterfamilias, who should encourage his son to become proficient in the art of "hit, stop and get away." A broken head is soon remedied, but a cold leaden pill or a cruel thrust of a knife has cost many a life, and any one who resorts to these weapons, excepting when his life is in danger, is a contemptible coward, without a spark of manhood in his breast, and a disgrace to the Anglo-Saxon race. The accomplishment...
...german, though, - they were extremely dignified. Some of them told me all about how they spend their time, and I think Harvard life must be perfectly delightful. One very pale man went home early. My cousin said he had to grind, because he was a law pill. Isn't that a horrid name? Arthur Pendennis is here in the Freshman class. He is just as conceited as he can be. My cousin says he drinks. If Mr. Styleslinger calls on you, just tell him that I have had ever so much attention in Cambridge, and think that Harvard...
...This was a bitter pill...