Word: sat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cases contain the modest collection of books. There are besides two recitation rooms, which Mr. Howells might call 'sincerely bare,' but which are amply comfortable for their purposes. In the sunny parlor, with its home-like belongings, had gathered Professor Hill's Rhetoric class. A half dozen young ladies sat about informally while the professor read his lecture. He had just delivered the same lecture to the sophomore class in the college, and adapted it to his present audience by means of frequent parentheses. It was somewhat after this fashion: - 'Unless a man acquires a taste for reading before...
...Yale choked him with great ardor. Other Princeton men and other Yale men came up and took a hand in it, and the impulse of the moment, changing sides, affected a Princeton man, who slugged a Yale man in the eye. The Yale man, after a few words, sat up, rubbed his eye, got on his feet and resumed the game. He seemed to cherish no resentment...
...little boy quietly watched a bee crawling on his hand, till he stopped and stung him, when he sobbed: "I didn't mind its walking about, but when it sat down it hurt awful...
Henry Ward Beecher sat in the Supreme Court, New York, yesterday, as defendant in suit of Wilkeson against Beecher. There is an alleged breach of contract with his publishers in not completing the "Life of Christ...
...following criticism is made on the Harvard crew: "Mr. Bancroft deserves the greatest credit for turning out the crew in such shape. The men who occupy the last four thwarts are as perfect a rowing four in style, time and swing as ever sat in any American college eight, and it is only in front of these that individual faults are to be found which mar the perfect uniformity and symmetry of the crew. Captain Hammond, who rows at No. 4. carries his oar up too high at the end of his feather and misses the first part...