Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Through the smoke are staring idly...
...Amherst will this year graduate seventy-five men. Of this number 42 are Republicans, 7 Democrats, and 22 Independents; 49 believe in total abstinence; 34 dance, 34 smoke, 10 chew, and 56 play cards; 13 are devoted to Political Economy, 11 to Philosophy, and I to the study of human nature; 7 are engaged, 4 "won't tell," while the remainder are still untrammelled...
...never saw any one so surprised. 'Why, Cousin Harry,' said she, and she opened her great eyes at me; 'you don't smoke, do you?' And then we went through the old argument again. I've had it with my sister thousands of times, but it had quite a novel feeling to have your belle cousine for an antagonist. I declare, she seemed so earnest about it, and so sorry that I had formed the habit, that I felt quite complimented, but I was rather uncomfortable...
...that sold him weedes for to smoke...
...sensible person would only smile and draw his own private conclusions as to the sanity of that august body; but when a respectable journal, making comments on Harvard and Yale, sets itself up as champion of such an inane course as refusing college aid to such students as "drink, smoke, dance, or play billiards," we are forced to believe that the writer either has an eye to the paper's country subscription-list rather than to the convictions of his own conscience, or else possesses a fund of facile gullibility and eremitical unworldliness which is totally inconsistent with the reputation...