Word: planks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion I rather incline) vice versa. We had read, too, of the woful condition of college morals and college men, who commit the heinous...
Which shows half hid in sand that cross of plank...
PRACTICAL FRIEND. I should think you would prefer having them plank the walks...
PIRATICAL STUDENT (who has just received a Public for cutting prayers). O that I had the Board of Overseers in my grasp! Would n't I make them walk the plank...
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY wants plank walks. The mud in the yard is knee-high...