Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fortunately for variety's sake, beggars' footsteps are not the only ones that can be listened to. Various "dwellers in the realms above," i. e. the third and fourth stories, have their distinguishing characteristics. One saunters slowly along the entry, and then, as if to make up for wasted moments, takes the next flight four steps at a time. Another delights in rapping the whole length of the wall, as if trying to find a sound spot, or possibly to suggest prospects of a visitor to the occupants of the entry. A third drags his stick along the floor...
...were willing to brave rain, storm, bad ventilation, and the attractions offered by the "Athens of America," and were, as far as I can learn, never sorry for it. In fact, I doubt if ever any man could be sorry that he put himself to any inconvenience for the sake of hearing Cervantes translated and commented on by a James Russell Lowell...
...fact, several of them. For there are, or have been, several undergraduates connected with Boston papers. There is no harm or shadow of injury in that, so long as their efforts are confined to the delineation of absolute facts, and their imaginations are not drawn on for the sake of another paragraph. But we may safely leave to their sense of honor not to wilfully misrepresent...
...bitter cup, and pray for our poor sake...
...Nine immediately dropped the matter. Springfield is agreed upon as the place for the third game, if a third game is found necessary. Delegates from the two Nines will meet to-morrow at Springfield to settle upon the day on which each game shall be played, and, for the sake of peace, we sincerely hope that their decisions will be satisfactory to the Record...