Word: queered
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...place that is drear and sombre and queer...
...peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet game of lawn tennis in which I was participating, and introduced himself to me; after a little conversation the extremely polite gentleman invited...
...they are queer, - there's no denying...
...they are, is a student to be punished, rather than thanked, for calling attention to what needs reform? If they are not, has the Faculty of the College of New York read in vain AEsop's fable of the lion and the mouse? AEsop was a queer man; but he certainly did not have in his mind boys of eighteen or nineteen when writing that fable, but men old enough to know better. If ever a lack of patience or tact is to be lamented, it is certainly in the case of a college instructor, and more...
...Hour says some people have queer ideas of what constitutes holiday recreation. A Harvard student from Yucatan went to spend his vacation in his native equatorial latitudes, and passed the entire time in fighting in one of the periodical revolutions indulged in by his countrymen. Refreshed and invigorated by this delightful sport, he returned in due course to pursue his peaceful studies at Cambridge...