Word: pocketed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...much to expect the above desperate character to read anything so respectable as the original, I venture to give a few selected bits, very much as the members of the B. L. B. U. E. T. A. used to print the decalogue in gaudy colors on pocket-handkerchiefs and express them to the South Sea Islanders, utterly oblivious to the fact that the islanders aforesaid were unprovided with spring suits, and, consequently, with upper left outside breast-pockets. It is not in cruelty, not in wrath, that I cull from Mr. Dwight's cerebral convolutions a few of the flowerets...
...obtaining money-subscriptions in aid of athletics this year is understood by all; and if the lukewarm supporter of the foot-ball interest has any additional excuse for not subscribing, other than the common plea of hard times, the chances are that he will close both his ears and pocket to the entreaties of the canvasser for foot-ball subscriptions. It is this fear of a lack of money support, more than an apprehension that the counsel offered in the Advocate will be ultimately adopted, which induces us to present the other side of the question. Without disputing that...
Immediately Fine Arts suggested itself as the most high-toned thing on which to begin. So I commenced looking around for some favorable investment in this line. Firmly convinced of the truth of the proverb, "Palma non sine argento per vias rectas," my small board fairly burned in my pocket, while I was searching for some good introduction to this unknown land...
...parts from $8 to $12; and it is much better to spend more and obtain one which has some merit in it, than to throw away a sum of money on a poor one. Doubtless $1,200 or $1,500 would be quite a heavy tax upon the collegiate pocket, but for such an object no student would refuse to give $5, and two thirds of the class, by giving $10 or $15 apiece, would easily contribute enough money to purchase a window which could not be surpassed by that of any succeeding class. Here in America stained-glass windows...
WHAT historical grounds have we for saying Cleopatra had no pocket to put her handkerchief in? Sufficient in that she put her viper in her bosom...