Word: sit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...himself and said, "So you've found that, have you? No, it is n't mine, I am keeping it for - Well, Morris, I think I'll tell you about it, and ask your adv ce about what I ought to do with it. Never mind the studs, but sit down...
...When we got to the pond I felt rather tired, so I said to her, 'You know a great deal more about finding these flowers than I do, Ethel, and I'll only be in your way, so, if you've no objection, I'll just sit on this stump and take a cigarette...
...attained. Boots that squeak are a nuisance; doubly so when a proctor wears them in examination; trebly so when the aforesaid proctor determines to take his "constitutional" in said boots in said examination-room. A piteous story might be told of a man who by accident has to sit within two feet of damp, cold walls (lower Mass. last Monday, for example) in a rheumatic, backless chair, and listen to the warlike tread of the officious guardian proctor, all the while attempting - can he be blamed if he fails? - to calmly reason on the probable result of increasing population...
...remember the name of Rumvill, but I could n't recollect that we had been exactly brothers there. In fact, I think I remember his lifting me up by the ears one recess; and he got licked for it, too, the cowardly dog. But still I asked him to sit down, and remarked that it was a long time since then...
...March 9th, which contains a complaint as to the ventilation of certain recitation-rooms. This immediately puts me in mind of the state of things existing in one of the greatest Universities of Germany. The writer has complained that "in one case some thirty men have been compelled to sit for an hour in a small room with closed doors and windows." In one of the large halls in the University of Leipzig more than two hundred students are gathered together to listen to the learned Professor Curtius, whose fame is now world-wide. Here I have repeatedly sat during...