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Word: pleasantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...generous disposition, - which despises not men, but only what is mean and false in men. His character is consistent throughout, and a great though peculiar one. While he is as noble a man as is to be met with once in an age, still it is perhaps more pleasant to have that meeting take place in a book than in real life. He is one of those persons who are always misjudged, and judged only by the poorer side of their characters. Should we meet him tomorrow, we should set him down as a prig, and perhaps be right...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

...words as we close another College year. No matter how little any of us think of the past eight months, we all feel how little has been accomplished of what, according to our plans and wishes, was to be done. How many pleasant fellows there are that we intended to see a good deal of, that we have met but once or twice; how many books, which we have been told we must read, have laid collecting dust on our tables and fines in the library,-if we have even gone so far as to take them out; how many...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMING UP. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...that we feel sure that the present state of feeling will long continue. Should any change of policy, in this regard, be effected at some future time, both journals will surely feel the contempt of the whole college world. Once more thanking our readers, we wish them a most pleasant vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAGENTA. | 6/20/1873 | See Source »

...pleasant fruits; she spurned them all away...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN INDIAN LEGEND. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

...cool, refreshing water. The place was long and winding, lighted by gas, with a little shelf at each end, just like the seal's tank in an aquarium. Leaving this subterranean lake, I was rubbed down after the manner of ostlers, and laid under a blanket. This was decidedly pleasant. I felt like a new man. Nothing was needed to complete my happiness but a cigarette. I asked in an humble voice to be allowed to smoke one, but the man in the choker said, with a frown, that "Dr. Lewis did not approve of tobacco." I said no more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TURKISH BATH. | 6/13/1873 | See Source »

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