Word: sat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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After making these notes, I went and bought a twenty-five-couponed palace-car ticket to Pelican Swamp, for four quids, two drinks, and a bowie-knife; then I sat down and waited half an hour...
...track. It only meandered slowly along, just a "leetle grain ahead." They all returned finally to the train, Bill furiously swearing, "By the holy horns of Beelzebub, if I bust my biler, I'll run that blasted critter down." The tender was emptied into the boiler, and the fireman sat on the safety-valve, and we ploughed along like an enraged elephant whose legs have been cut off by a circular saw. Still the calf kept a "leetle mite ahead," now and then playfully tapping the boiler front with its hind feet. At last it was too much for patience...
...Plutocrat sat in his velvet chair...
...start was pretty fair, and none tried too hard for the lead. Matthews rolled badly, and showed neither uniformity nor individual good rowing. None of the crews "sat" their boat well, but there was some very clean and precise rowing, for second crews, in the other three boats. The steering of the Holworthy and Weld coxswains was remarkably good, up the course especially, both crews leaving a perfectly straight path behind them, while the wakes of Matthews, and more particularly of Holyoke, showed by their many crooks the excitement and want of practice of the hands that held the tiller...
...friend, however, suddenly caught sight of me, and came over to where I sat. Dinner had by this time reached the dessert stage...