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Word: pleasantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attendance at prayers has very noticeably increased with the pleasant weather and the dean's late urgent exhortations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 5/5/1882 | See Source »

...barefaced charges and insinuated imputations, which disappointed rivalry may well account for, but which nothing can palliate, and for which profound penitence only can atone . . A Latin and Greek ode in the Commons-Hall gave a classical air to the festivity of the entertainment; and a brilliant illumination and pleasant ball in the evening, closed the duties and the enjoyments of a day, which for its immediate interest and consequent effects will never be forgotten in the walls of Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EARLIER HARVARD JOURNALISM. | 4/25/1882 | See Source »

...than a pin-cushion full of scarf-pins! I fully intended to take you to Mrs. De Sorosis' reception this week, but my space will not allow it. Rake down the fire, light a cigarette, and dream over a French novel in your dress coat instead, and learn how pleasant it is. One should only read French novels in a dress coat, I think, and philosophy in an ulster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAUSETTE DE LUNDI. | 4/24/1882 | See Source »

...Everybody's eyes are now on Yale's athletics, and everybody will be agog when she branches off into this untried field [of la crosse]," says the News complacently. "Agog" is very "pleasant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/21/1882 | See Source »

...sources, and comprising all the more notable tributes to the poet's memory that have appeared since his death. His career as student and as professor is well portrayed; the interesting letter by Rev. E. E. Hale on the subject of his connection with Harvard is given; and many pleasant anecdotes of his life in Cambridge appear here for the first time. The book is very readable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 4/20/1882 | See Source »

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