Word: round
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ears, which nature erected at perfectly true right-angles with my head, lay back upon it as flat as if naturally coalescent. I shrieked at the flying steed that perhaps he had better save himself a little. Vain, futile words! they never reached his ears till he went round the track and met them on the other side. He heeded not, nor heard; he merely went, he simply hummed, and I hung on to the dash-board with my teeth...
...calc'late ye kin beat 'bout everything 'round here, don't ye?" spoke up the grocer's man in a congratulatory tone of voice, which instantly decided me to purchase, from that time on, all the necessaries of life from his assortment...
...Fair-Ground track?" interrogatively observed the road-commissioner. "How many times did you go round...
...German youths, all loaded down with voluminous documents and looking excessively anxious. After an embarrassing delay we were admitted, but found no one there except the servant who had opened the door and who took our cards as we came in. After we had all entered he came round and gathered up our papers, with which he vanished through a small door in the wall. Another delay ensued, during which I amused myself by studying the frescos on the ceiling, which consisted principally of groups of little naked cherubs in every possible and impossible attitude. At last there...
When we had all made our pilgrimage and received our documents, the doors of the room were thrown open, the old Rector took his stand at one end of the big table, and we all formed in single file, passing round the table and shaking hands with the Rector, and then out at the door...