Word: refreshers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Refresh her cheeks. Her waving hair...
...visit to a New Hampshire village gave me the coveted opportunity, and I and my suspicions of this antidote for care were awakened one morning at five A. M. Remembering that, according to old Izaak, a rosy dairy-maid was to refresh me at noon with new milk, I put on my white flannel suit with some care and started off. My journey to the brook was a modern Anabasis, - ???, - "just three miles" did that brook keep ahead of me throughout the fifteen I walked. I learned this from passing countrymen, and argument and expostulation failed to shorten the distance...
ALMOST every one, in reading Macaulay, must have been struck by the numerous allusions to an imaginary school-boy, who is called upon to refresh the memory of the reader upon subjects as widely different as the date of a king of England, the construction of a Greek play, or the theory of government. I have always had a great reverence for this imaginary personage, whom I think as badly treated as was the famous Mr. Blank, mentioned in the Spectator...
...Freshman class, we suppose, originally got its name from the fact that it is those amiable new-comers who refresh the weariness of college routine, and prevent our suffering from any possible monotony, by their eagerness and energy in striking out into new and original paths. The Class of '81 has just furnished us with a new proof of this freshness - we use the word in no invidious, but in a complimentary sense - by their organization of a "Glass Ball Club." We heartily welcome this new addition to college sports, and wish success to the ball-shooters...
...hoped, profitable voyage. Fifteen pounds of "Lone Jack" was my first investment. I have laid in this large supply, as it will be difficult to procure the correct weed along the route. As Athens is on the programme, I have taken Volume VIII. of Grote to refresh my memory of Socrates and the Prytaneum. The library of the "Ontario" seemed to lack books for light reading, so I invested in a choice assortment of new French novels, with the addition of some of Peterson's valuable publications, the score of the "Trial by Jury," and several bound volumes...