Word: scene
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fair sylphids hover o'er the scene...
...SCENE, Recitation Room. Artful Student (who wishes to make a favorable impression on his French instructor, just before the Semiannuals). Monsieur, will you be good enough to tell me what books you would recommend me to read at sight outside of the class? Acute Instructor (who has been caught in the trap before). If you want something to read at sight, sir, I should recommend the books we have been using in the class...
...pleasant," I said to myself, as I looked down upon the scene below. "I think I can give up tough dinde aux truffes for this beef, which must be good judging from the way in which that classmate of mine is devouring it. There is a charm in a hall like this; and the worthies who look down upon one from the walls are inspiring, - all of them, from the driest, pickled old Puritan, to the gallant young Colonel who fell at Wagner. There is richness in that gorgeous window, - but stop! the national bird done in colored glass...
...SCENE, recitation-room. Enter ABSENT-MINDED FRESHMAN with his hat on. He sits down...
Need we paint the scene that followed...