Word: ride
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fortunate enough to have a seat as often as once in ten times while riding in town, do buy a lottery-ticket at once, for you will surely be the winner. Although you may occasionally have a seat when going in, you certainly haven't the sang-froid to expect one on coming out. If you think of coming out directly after the theatre, you find nothing but $ 75 bonnets and opera hats bobbing around in the car, and to get a footing on the front platform is more than most men expect. In the eleven o'clock car, filled...
...ride, or stay'd at home, you know...
...companion in the carriage was a fine-looking middle-aged man, who had all the appearance not only of a gentleman, but of an aristocrat, and who, after learning that I was an Englishman, conversed most fluently and delightfully in my own tongue during the whole of our long ride. Just before arriving he handed me his card, and said that he should call on me the next day and see if there was any thing he could do for me. His card read thus: Dr. De Beauville, Practising Physician, 14 Rue Berry...
...left college, at which time I was on my uncle's ranch in Kansas. One evening, about seven o'clock, a gentleman stopped at the house inquired for uncle, and asked him whether he could accommodate him for the night, and in the morning give him a horse to ride and a guide to show him the way to Fairfield, a village about sixty miles distant, as very important business demanded his presence there. Uncle consented to do as he wished, and asked me to act as guide. Upon closer examination I found the stranger to be my old friend...
...Bicycle Club rode to Belmont by moonlight last Wednesday. There will be another moonlight ride to Malden next Tuesday evening, where the Middlesex B. C. will hold a large meet...