Word: poco
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would n't do to subject one's conversation to so accurate a recorder...
...Quick!" I yelled; "the ammonia." She handed it, and I poured the whole into the remnants of my pocket. There was an explosion, a woman's scream, a blinding smoke. When this smoke cleared away I was alone, and wearing the most demoralized suit of clothes that ever a poco dreamed...
...indifference to its smiles. I acknowledge a sympathy with the fair captives, and confess to a certain weakness for the little Italian myself. The orangeman (who, by the way, is a stanch Romanist) affords me no little delight; there is a pleasure in communion of thought with the gentlemanly poco; but the picturesqueness of the uncombed locks of the Italian boy, and the fine frenzy of his black eyes, have charms that especially captivate...
...were the custom of the genus poco to visit us at this late hour, if an unwary book-agent had looked in on me, I should have had an outlet for my spleen. A head would have gone, the world been minus one more plague, and the Crimson's dignity saved. But the sin of this be on the heads of my tormentors...
When the band played, a long line of fashionably dressed youths fell into line and marched to prayers, as I was told, to the tune of "Believe me if all these endearing." Mr. Poco kindly pointed out the popular men, but an old friend suddenly called him, and he left me somewhat abruptly, after introducing me to a Mr. Proctor, who seemed like one of my own class, and with whom I felt at once quite at home...