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Word: roughing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Round Table contains a very pretty imitation of T. Buchanan Reed's "Bay of Naples," entitled "Moonlight Song." It is a relief to find so correct a piece of versification after reading the rough and unmusical verses which abound in most of the college papers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

...spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage to carry their old 22-inch tub of a boat over three miles of rough water in 18.44 1/2, can hardly be conjectured...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/14/1878 | See Source »

...rough and cheerless ways...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DISILLUSION. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...silver medals. There were nine starters, and A. A. Honey of Sidney College proved the winner, in 3 h. 51 min., H. S. Clarke, Trinity being second, in 4 h. 13 min., and G. A. Shoppee, Jesus, third, in 4 h. 19 min. 30 sec. The roads were very rough and stony...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 4/19/1878 | See Source »

...that I like it quite as well as I did Brown's, but, on the whole, I think it good enough for a law-student like myself. You see I did n't get my degree last year, and so now I am determined to rough it. To come to the point, I had always regarded the men who boarded here somewhat in the light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared to find them sunk so deep in their barbarism. You will scarcely believe me, I imagine, when I tell you that at one table...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 11/23/1877 | See Source »

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