Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That don't sound just right either. I am a little mixed. I'll try an extemporary theme for English 5, or, better still, I'll repeat a little English; that will quiet my nerves. I'll begin with Milton's sonnet on a Freshman addicted to bragging...
...politeness to the ladies is capped by his argument ending in an entirely different way from which he began; for, whereas he stoutly urges the exclusion of the Freshmen, he magnanimously adds that he is convinced that the Class-Day Committee would admit them, provided they sit quiet on the green next to Holden and do not join in a ring round the Tree...
...winter, and ever since has been impressing upon his kind old father and simple-minded mother the necessity of his satisfying his mind in regard to the existence of the flying buttress in the best examples of Romanesque architecture. But alas! this estimable youth, instead of being in some quiet town, architecturally rich in the relics of the past, has been improving his idiomatic knowledge of the French language by sojourning in the tents of Kedar, or, to be less biblical, in the Rue de Breda, and any buttresses whose acquaintance he has made have been very flying ones indeed...
Into your soul a dreamy quiet bore...
...went home from dinner one evening contented with myself and at peace with all mankind - except Bartlett, Sever, and my washerwoman. I lit my pipe, took up the last Crimson, and prepared for a quiet evening when the suffering melodeon claimed and got as usual my undivided attention. The continued unhappiness of the poor creature touched my heart, and I was about to remonstrate with its heartless master when a new symptom of its disease appeared. The spasms of wheezing and coughing were interrupted by a buzzing, droning sound...