Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...next few years seem to have quickly passed with Jeremiah, and to have increased his desire for literary fame. Every scrap of paper that fell in his way, - even the backs of his late father's receipted bills and the margins of the Hampton Gazette - he appropriated with a miserly eagerness that reminds one of Pope. Few men are content to write much without a thought of publication, and soon the fatal itching to get into print seized Jeremiah. Whittier, when a farm-boy, sent a poem on a scrap of paper to an editor, and immediately his genius...
...Read this carefully." And he pointed to a scrap from the Advocate which I had stuck...
...with which the now admitted Freshman takes up his first special paper. On his appearance at lunch with what admiration is he regarded by those who have yet to pass the ordeal? And how the paper is passed from hand to hand with wonder; how eagerly he buys a scrap-book to preserve the precious relic...
...down and decipher the old scrap, a la Champollion. Here's a convenient tomb for a sofa. Great gad! think of sitting...
...college term in June sets free six hundred students, who are soon scattered to every part of this country, and, we may almost say, to every corner of the world. If we could obtain a leaf from the mental note-book of each man, we might form a cosmopolitan scrap-book of experience that would be amusing, not to say instructive. O for a telescope of unlimited power, to see our friends of the midnight oil "clothed in purple and fine linen," displaying their charms of face and figure at Swampscott or Newport, looking wise if any allusion chance...