Word: quietness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...study with more quiet, or I shall
...like to sit and have a quiet smoke...
...quiet smoke...
That they did not depart from their usual character on this occasion was shown at the hearing in a manner which I think must have satisfied any unprejudiced listener. It was there demonstrated that the dinner was quiet; that little wine was used; that the party were, without exception, sober; and that their only offence against good order was the singing of college songs when on their way through Court and Cambridge Streets. In short, in no part of the evidence did anything appear which could in any degree discredit young men with the College authorities, or which need give...
...large man, we are obliged to finish our lunch in comparative quiet...