Word: quest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Alas, we were mistaken. On the evening of so-called Bloody Monday a party of sportive Sophomores, led by some powerful motive, such as the love of "roughing" or the desire for free beer, sallied forth in quest of the guileless Freshman...
...leave to-day their sordid quest for gold...
...cover can be turned back and the book rather familiarly used. The imposing libraries that impart an air of wonderful erudition to the regal house of many a merchant, do their only duty in doing as much as this. Good little boys in story-books open valuable volumes in quest of traditional dollar-bills between the leaves, but many a volume is never opened or even taken from its shelf in some libraries. Cheap literature is not for such epicures as these; they must take their learning, as the poor, sick homeopathics do, in sugar-coated form. The binding...
...Cambridge, the mind inevitably wanders from the printed page to catch the gorgeous hues of that almost tropical picture with which New England compensates her sons, once a year, for the dreary length of her inhospitable winter. Saturday sees nearly the whole college scattered through the adjoining country in quest of rural enjoyment...
...sailing onward in our quest...