Word: sleep
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...time is not sufficiently long. To properly review the work of months within three weeks, without "exhaustive toil and midnight oil," is generally impossible. The ambitious student grinds and digs his health away, while the "bummer," secure in the thought of no recitations to-morrow, spends the days in sleep, the nights in "howls...
...sooner they're married, the sooner to sleep...
...sleep - and find her there...
...occupants of the various dormitories would be, in case of serious fire at night, roasted with as much neatness and despatch as the most ardent advocate of cremation could wish. Locked in their rooms, and in deep sleep, they could only be aroused to find escape impossible; the entries and stairways would act as most efficient chimneys, and the draught through them would draw the flames up from story to story with the utmost rapidity, effectually closing the only means of escape...
...sough of a slumberous sleep-wind and the sigh of a sobbing wave...