Word: sit
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...enjoyment from the pleasures which might be theirs. Among one class of students an idea prevails which is productive of no good. Without doubt, honestly feeling that they should improve their time while in college, they conscientiously study when it would be far better to take recreation. If they sit down to spend a quiet hour in reading, they endeavor to get over as much ground as possible, and an evening walk is the cause of pangs of conscience. A feeling seems continually to possess them, that they must do something, lest some opportunity should pass unheeded. Unsatisfied while...
SENIOR (who has a bright thought). Oh! to sit on all impeachments...
...disquisition on the benefits derived from chess need not be entered into now; we probably all know them by heart. But there are many who have never played chess who think it the very essence of stupidity for two persons to sit, one on each side of a table, looking in silence at each other and the board, and finally making a move. But chess may be played for pleasure as well as for mental exercise. We sometimes "knock up," as well as play a ball match; and it is quite as good fun for most...
...friend teaching school in this same country town, upon whom he calls. See him when, before he enters in front of the assembled school, he stops and furtively brushes his beaver, and dusts off his boots. Ah! he has the disease. See him mount the platform and sit down, composedly throwing back the lappel of his coat. See him coolly adjust his eye-glasses (at home he only needs them for reading), and gaze around the room. You would certainly suppose him one of the great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor...