Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sir - sometimes," responded Porter...
...Well, sir, I should think they would! Good-day, Mr. Porter," and the president departed, saying nothing more, for he always wisely allowed for the existence of a certain amount of human nature in ingenious youth...
Professor in Physics : "What becomes of a ray of light on passing through a crystal of calcite?" Junior : "It is paralyzed, sir...
...recognition of the claims of American scholarship is about to be made by the English university of Cambridge, in the person of Prof. W. W. Goodwin. Your eminent Greek scholar is to receive the honorary degree of LL. D. at Cambridge on the 12th of June, in company with Sir John Lubbock, Matthew Arnold, M. Pasteur, the great French chemist; George F. Watts, the painter; General Menabrea, the Italian minister in London; Sir Alexander Grant, the principal of Edinburgh University, and other distinguished men. Professor Goodwin's honor is not only well deserved, but it is peculiarly appropriate as coming...
Junior, parsing: "Nihil is a noun." Professor: "What does it come from?" Student: "It doesn't come at all." Professor (quizzing): "Doesn't it come from nihilo?" Student: "No, sir. Ex nihilo nihil...