Word: rat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sophomoric "rat...
...sorts of Bible questions upon me, and snort triumphantly when I failed to answer them. In the evening she would sing in a cracked, trembling voice the most dismal of old minor airs until I was sent trembling to bed, there to lie awake in terror, thinking every rat in the ancient house was a gibbering ghost. I once innocently asked her if she ever had a chance to get married; but I never repeated the question...
...Prooemium. Harvardinus; the member of a gens of considerable local reputation; nearly allied to the Bavii; at enmity with Antonius Collis. Cf. Rat. Y I. C. I small print...
...took advantage of, though he did not make his opportunities, and there is enough in his character to impress you with a sense of its unusual dignity; nor can you follow the history of the wretched Emperor with unbated breath; he shows his teeth like a hunted rat, now in one corner, now in another; at last he exposes his neck at Canossa to the spring of the cat that for twenty years has patiently waited in the Vatican. But endow him with an instinct amounting to foreknowledge, with a tact in the management of men that turns them into...
...that another dreary time of waiting was inevitable. To relieve the monotony, small bets and dollar sweep-stakes were made, and among the large family-parties luncheons were eaten before hungry collegians, whose only solace was pea-nuts or doubtful lemonade. On the eastern shore, "The Death of the Rat," a tragedy in several acts, was performed before a select audience...