Word: pray
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ALTHOUGH it is comparatively early in the term, Senior parts have been assigned to Pray, Salutatorian, and, with the exception of those who had parts last term, and a man who entered Bowdoin during Senior year, all the rest of the class." - Bowdoin Orient...
...especially difficult Most of y college felloes are goode and pious, but there are two whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them, but I fear lest the devil harden their hearts against repentance. Now, I must say farewell, for 't is nine o' the clock, and we retire regularly at this hour...
Gentlemen, - Pray accept my best thanks for the package of Vanity Fair Tobacco which I found here yesterday. It is the best tobacco I ever smoked, and will be a great source of enjoyment to me on my Western trip...
...Pray don't," I laughed, "pray don't! I'll swear eternal fealty to the molecular theory if you command...
...these "classic shades"; that their virtues were manifold and their faults but specks? Certainly this is true, for it has all been said, over and over again, of preceding classes. We will therefore not moralize upon either the class or the day, but we will earnestly hope and devotedly pray that the day itself will not be very warm; that the marshals will be as elegant in their appearance as the combined efforts of art and nature can make them; that the oration will prove all that can possibly be desired; that the poem will be entirely satisfactory; that...