Word: saws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...house, the snow beating against the window-panes, and the whistle of the draught in the chimney. In such a night and at that late hour I did not expect any one would drop in. I was therefore rather surprised when I heard a knock at my door, and saw a stranger come in. His appearance was certainly remarkable. He was young, but dressed in a very old fashion. Buff boots and black-velvet knickerbockers adorned his legs, while a blue coat and brilliant red waistcoat covered the upper part of his body. He took off his large slouch...
...opinions, and to hear his reasons for taking a different ground. The present captain, we happen to know, has given the subject of strokes a great deal of consideration. At Springfield he studied the stroke of the Yale men, and after the regatta at Saratoga he went to Philadelphia, saw both the English crews, and talked with the captain of the London Rowing Club Four. He therefore has definite opinions. A public statement of those opinions would certainly be read with the greatest interest by both graduates and undergraduates...
...what a man just from college noticed and experienced in a rapid tour around the world. The book is naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which in short narratives adds life, but continued in a book of over three hundred pages...
...rehearsing some old saw...
...thyself of thy senioric privileges and betake thyself off for a week's respite from college duties?" and I leaned moodily against a tree. Of a sudden a cold puff of wind drew across the Yard, and, tinkle, tinkle, a sharp metallic sound struck my ear. I turned, and saw that I was standing near the college-pump, whose tin cup the breeze was rattling against the post. "Well said, wise counsellor," I murmured, "if man fail, then malt...