Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Here we are at last, and what a curious lot of people they are. In no drawing-room in Boston will you see so many people you never saw before, and probably you never saw so many people together before whom you would never care to see again. And curiously enough, they themselves care very little to see one another again, and it is easily explained. For here we have a mass of the literary excrescences of the day, and I have remarked that among the intellectual small-fry in Boston or elsewhere there is a startling lack of humility...
...supported by all the dead-tongue devotees in the country; but," it continues, "for one man, in the midst of the pressing work of the junior year, to write up an entirely original play [Penikeese], such as shall satisfy an audience far harder to please than any Greece ever saw, is not without its merit...
...When I saw how your hand had grown...
...awfullest thing that happened was when the girls got together and held an indignation meeting, so to speak. At first I was going to own right up and say it was I, but they seemed so fierce in their wrath that I was almost frightened to death. I never saw such mad girls in all my life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said...
...Wance," when John was a boy in Ireland, some eddicated folks came to the country and told them all about the steam-cars, and drew a "presen'tion" of them. But he didn't ever believe them until he went to "Clarney," and saw with his own eyes the wonders related. So people ought to believe a great many things they never see. "Why, if I should go to Oirland, and tell them all about class-day here, sorr, they would niver believe...