Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...once an hour on the average, nor have they even walked, two by two, past any given man more than a half-hour by the clock. This is in the highest degree praiseworthy, and we heartily congratulate them in their not altogether unsuccessful efforts at reform. But there is room for improvement; the ideal is not yet attained. Boots that squeak are a nuisance; doubly so when a proctor wears them in examination; trebly so when the aforesaid proctor determines to take his "constitutional" in said boots in said examination-room. A piteous story might be told...
...converse of "parturiunt montes"; the ridiculous and insignificant charge will bring forth a mountain of argument. The Chronicle editors, however, should learn wisdom from us, and fight the war in the enemy's country by publishing their criminations and recriminations in the Advocate itself. This would leave them more room for discussing the propriety of dancing on Class Day. By the by, if the signers of the "counter-petition" in our Senior class had only taken the ground of morality as an excuse for their action, no one could think them "dogs-in-the-manger...
...heard Lyon's door slam. I also heard hasty footsteps down the stairs. I looked on the table. There were his hat and cane, but where was the money? I rushed over to Lyon's room, and pounded on the door. He shouted out, "Who's there...
...late last night, as I was sitting and calculating if I should be called up in German the next day, I heard somebody come up stairs. First he went to the door opposite mine and knocked several times, but, getting no answer, he turned and came across to my room, and after waiting a moment knocked, and entered. He was stunningly dressed, and had a parcel in his hand addressed to Mr. Lyon, who rooms across the entry. He advanced, cordially holding out his hand...
Left alone, I manage, by the force of will, to overcome the sounds of the cornet in the room below, of the piano in the room above, and the sparring-match next door, and drowse away the afternoon in dreaming of the seaside and summer flirtations...