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...little white feet, in a riotous grief...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A NEW DANAE. | 6/1/1877 | See Source »

...veil is drawn for the last time, and the sound of the harp, sackbut, and psaltery has ceased, tarry not, but hie ye quickly to your domiciles, lest after too great indulgence ye become unable to walk upright, and being unsteady in both extremities, ye act in a riotous and unbecoming manner and excite the wrath of the custodians of the highways, who will quickly deliver ye to the judge, and the judge will deliver ye to the officer, and ye be cast into prison. Verily, I say unto you, ye shall by no means come out thence till...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ADVICE. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment he had cut himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon his neck and greet him - hic - dear old fellow; the same old dinner-procession, whose dignified, slow-moving head gave no indication of the riotous life displayed by its swaying tail; and finally, the ancient scholar was there, who every year nobly refuses his dinner, that he may spend the afternoon in exhorting the lazy scapegraces lolling in the halls and on the grass to persevere in polite studies. We can afford to forget the contempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

There is boisterous fun and riotous glee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A TALE OF FARGEAU. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...kept up to a late hour, and with the singing of "Auld Lang Syne" ended one of the never-to-be-forgotten events of our college course. It is with pleasure that we record the fact that the company dispersed quietly and in good order, without any of those riotous proceedings which commonly mar the "finale" of such occasions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS SUPPER. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

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