Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rather hard on our ancient friend, I'll acknowledge, but wasn't it absurd? Oh! he's a genius, Jack is; I doubt if there'll be one of you able to sit up in her chair two minutes after he comes into the room. You'll all be rolling off under the sofa, or holding on to the wall for support." and thus I dilated the entire morning on Jack's all-pervading facetiousness, and I had so thoroughly excited the risibility of those nine girls that the mere anticipation of his coming put them into frequent ecstasies...
...likely to get pretty well posted on bicycles." That was too much. With one feeble wail I passed into oblivion. . . . .I remained in oblivion three days, returning on Sunday; very opportunely, as the reduction of fares on the U. R. R. took effect on that day. I now sit in my window and watch the professors, and occasionally a student, go to recitation. Don't imagine that I'm wasting my time. Far from it: I am writing a Cobden Prize Essay on, "Satan viewed as the originator of two-wheeled locomotion; or, several substantial reasons why I wish...
...Carl. Sit up and have a smoke. Got any beer...
...Sit down, Moon, and make yourself at home," pursued my room-mate. And then that mocking laughter began again...
...ocean we will sit...