Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flask of old port let me sit the night long...
...said he had often been in the unpleasant predicament where it was necessary to accompany a woman to some place of amusement with another man, and he had experienced great difficulty in arranging the manner of sitting together. "If you put the woman in first," said he, "and let the other fellow sit between you she does not like it." I wondered why, but said nothing. "And if you put the woman in the middle," he continued, "it bothers her to keep up the conversation; she is obliged to do all the 'running,' because if you talk...
...will take place at Young's Hotel on Monday, May 15, at eight o'clock. Subscription $2.00. A book has been placed at Bartlett's, and all are requested to put down their names as soon as possible. Subscription must be paid on signing name. Those who desire to sit together will put their names in brackets...
Yale evidently appreciates the necessity of making it an object for her freshman nine to win the ball game from the Harvard nine, by her provision for not allowing the freshmen to sit on the fence in the event of their failure. Our freshman nine has been laughed at, encouraged and implored, by turns, to vanquish Yale, but all to no purpose. Something must be done, and that before the coming game. Why not make the admission of the freshman class to the tree on class day conditional on their defeat of Yale? When all other means fail, a direct...
Birds of prey sit aloft and watch with eager eyes the appearance of the sportsman that they may pursue their nefarious practices upon the carcasses left as useless by the nobler huntsman...