Word: reads
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...because so many different ideas were expressed by the brilliant authors present. At last the meeting was partially restored to harmony by the serene "apostle of culture," Mr. S. Mark Arnold. "Let us not quarrel," he began; "let us look for sweetness and light; let us - But I will read you a little poem of my own that reminds me of Wordsworth somewhat. Then you will see why I should be protected." And he began, in a voice full of rare melody...
...Frigid! frigid! very frigid!" exclaimed our old friend Algernon Charles Swansdown. "There is no life - no warmth. But your idea is a good one, Mark. Let us all read our lucubrations; I will begin. I will take for a subject the recent license vote in Cambridge. Strew roses around me and listen...
...upon the faces of the listeners when, at the conclusion of the second stanza, the poet fell exhausted into the arms of his friends. A moody silence ensued, broken at last by a slight, dark lady, with remarkably sharp eyes, Miss M. E. Baddone by name, who arose and read from a finely written manuscript...
UNIVERSAL suffrage has been adopted in Greek 7. The section recently decided, by a two-thirds vote, to read Thucydides instead of Demosthenes during the latter part of the year. A motion to have a cut at the next recitation was adopted by a still larger majority...
...Well, he went at 4 1/2 P.M. and got the Aberrate, and came home and sat down and began to read it; and pretty soon his hair stood up on both ends, and turned gray; his eyes started from his head and only hung by the stems, and before I could save him he had fallen into the fire and was consumed...