Word: seems
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...postman reports for May:- Delivery: Letters (mail), 6,428; (drop), 7,559. Postal Cards, 3,693. Collected: Letters AND Postal Cards, 557. It would seem that the undergraduates did but little writing during the few weeks previous to the annuals...
...start was not good, though not bad enough to justify calling the boats back. Weld was backing, and did not seem to hear the word...
...late war) are the enterprising managers of this Hippodrome, and to the travelling agent, P. T. Aristotle, Esq., is due much credit for the excellence of the side shows. Compared to the gigantic concourse of human beings that gathered in the Theatre of Dionysus last evening, all previous audiences seem small in the extreme...
...leaving a balance of three hundred pounds on hand. Our expenses need not be so great, for we should have no mortgages and would not spend so much at first for books and salaries. I hope that this scheme, which has been so hastily and imperfectly described, will not seem visionary. A few earnest and energetic supporters would be able to put it into operation without much difficulty...
...regret that young men so easily fall out of the habit of reading poetry, perhaps because it is often both tame and dull; if so, we can assure them that it is quite different with this book, for there is scarcely a line which does not seem to be filled with the natural outburst of a strong, enduring heart, the home of noble thoughts. We are sorry that the printer's work has been so badly done, for the numerous errors in that respect are sometimes serious obstacles to the pleasure of reading. The second edition should be more carefully...