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Word: pleasantly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Bicyclists will find that the road on Mt. Auburn street, through Watertown and Newton, is as pleasant a one as can be found about Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 5/14/1885 | See Source »

...reeds in a sandy soil, getting only a mere existence. Deprived for a time of association with the fairer and gentler sex, we grow manly and (in a sense) harsh, and not mild, gentle, forbearing. So, then, whenever we find the monotony of our desert life broken by some pleasant oasis with its shady groves and fair flowers, with its restful hospitality, we are entranced; for a time we think ourselves in a different world, where, indeed, we really are; and, when we push on again into the desert, we first think and then write of our past pleasures. Wellesley...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New England Conservatory of Music. | 5/9/1885 | See Source »

...innovation which the management of the nine is about to attempt is worthy of attention and commendation. Rampant muckerdom, regardless of the rights of private individuals and corporations, reigns supreme during the pleasant spring all over the lands of Harvard. No portion of the college grounds is free from the obnoxious presence of the small rascals, whom the collegian has dubbed with the sobriquet, muckers. They invade the dignified yard to the very steps of the dormitories, play tag upon the steps of the gymnasium and swarm in crowds over the track and diamond of the athletic fields...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/30/1885 | See Source »

...nearly as good as the samples shown to the committee. The sittings for this album were given very hurriedly, and the proofs were in most cases wholly unsatisfactory. The operator allowed us to sit in any position we happened to drop into, only urging us to "look as pleasant as possible." Two or three proofs were taken in as many seconds, and we were dismissed with the assurance that "these will be very nice," and "next" was called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/29/1885 | See Source »

...full of interest and some of them true monuments of Harvard's success and greatness, the crimson-uniformed nine in the centre, the runners and bicyclers, the tennis players, and last and laziest, the throng of lookers-on on the out-skirts, all make on Holmes on any pleasant afternoon a very fascinating picture, which speaks as well for Harvard's athletic activity as for her intellectual progress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/28/1885 | See Source »

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