Word: seat
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Sometimes men take too much to come back," said I. And he was glued to his seat after that...
...eyes. They walked over to the opposite table and registered. Then they surveyed the room, looking up and down, falling here and there, and withering "dig" after "dig" with their piercing gaze. At last, they too walked out; and I was surprised to see every man straightway leave his seat to seek the name of the fair visitor. They crowded about the book, and I heard a disappointed voice say, "Keokuk, Iowa." It was a clear case of "Go West, young...
THIS year I board at Memorial Hall, and I have a seat at a table on the dais at the end of the Hall. I can't say that I like it quite as well as I did Brown's, but, on the whole, I think it good enough for a law-student like myself. You see I did n't get my degree last year, and so now I am determined to rough it. To come to the point, I had always regarded the men who boarded here somewhat in the light of barbarians, but I was hardly prepared...
...heavy boat between them as easily as though it were made of paper. At the word the boat is put in the water, the crew take their oars and get in, while the diminutive coxswain, looking still smaller in contrast with the big fellows around him, takes his seat...
...please most of the members of the youngest class, and many of the members of the class next in point of age; but a rush is distasteful to the majority of the students, and is especially so if it involves a possibility of not getting into one's seat in time. The remedy is very simple, and, consisting as it does in merely unlocking the side doors of the Chapel, requires no vast outlay. Surely we may expect to have our convenience consulted in so trifling a matter...