Word: play
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...great bear, wandering at her will, as was her wont among the children at their play, first tasted blood, as it flowed from a child's foot pierced by a thorn...
...good example of what I mean. You find your friends interested in something that bores you. It would be unwise to tell them that they are fools, for, in the first place, at their period of life that is a foregone conclusion, and in the second place, two can play at that game. Neither would it be wise to retire to your own room in disgust, for man is a gregarious mammal, and you are a man. Nor yet ought you to look as gloomy as a funeral in the midst of a crowd of amused men. If they laugh...
...SHALL we fiddle?" asks the Round Table, - the Cosmopolitan College (Cornell) Era says that "of all the annoyances which disturb the studiously disposed, perhaps the worst is the Freshman who thinks he can play on a fiddle." The question is settled...
...last year with Yale, and the triumphs at Montreal this fall, give every reason to hope that team will add another to its long list of victories. They should remember, however, that the greater the elevation the more severe the fall. Several of our best men are unable to play in this game, and the rest should carefully see to it that victory does not slip through their fingers from inadvertence, or from any too sanguine notion of a "soft thing." To underrate your opponent is a fatal mistake in war or politics, and may prove disastrous even in foot...
...composing myself for sleep, to tell, or hear told, an incident or two as to what "he said" and "she did." And often the pleasantest memories of college life are these hours spent with gas turned down, - hours filled with words that can only pass between friends that have played and worked together, for only to such do we like to unbosom ourselves of plans for play and work in the future...