Word: seal
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...directors of the Harvard Cricket Club have taken measures to procure an appropriate "shingle" with seal for the members of the Club. The initiation fee has been placed at the low sum of one dollar, and a book has been opened at Richardson's to receive the names of subscribers...
...SEAL ring has been found, and may be recovered by the owner by applying at Hollis...
...contests, and that entries must be made before the twenty-third, by applying to the President at Weld 10. We are also requested to say that all members will receive from the Secretary, on paying the initiation fee of one dollar, a printed certificate of membership, with an appropriate seal...
...over his insolent conduct in silence, I requested him to produce his "plunge." I descended a flight of slippery steps, and gently stepped into a tank of cool, refreshing water. The place was long and winding, lighted by gas, with a little shelf at each end, just like the seal's tank in an aquarium. Leaving this subterranean lake, I was rubbed down after the manner of ostlers, and laid under a blanket. This was decidedly pleasant. I felt like a new man. Nothing was needed to complete my happiness but a cigarette. I asked in an humble voice...
...Port. He was the most affable dun that ever made out a bill. He did not seem to care so much for his money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word in regard to his "memorandum." When, at a thoughtless moment, I paid him, he seemed surprised...