Word: snails
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...habit of seeing how the great city looks before the subways to Boston are running, and the Cambridge police force, taking up the burden the stars have left off, resumes his diurnal beat. Seven hundred men have seen with Pippa the morning at seven; although the lark and the snail are missing from the wing and the thorn...
...most visible result was a much heightened interest in the realm of science by the students. It was only after he announced, having allowed the proper dramatic pause to intervene, that Venus is a form of mussel which will be used for dissection purposes instead of the French snail, no longer procurable on account of the war, that the class settled down to the normal lecture room lethargy...
...horrors of war are many. We shudder for the poor French snail, which may no longer visit our neutral shores. But--Venus is with...
...think it would hurt the freshmen to receive a little advice from the captain and members of the University eight, who will not be slow to inform them that unless they abandon the stroke under which they have attained such snail-like velocity, and take a tremendous "brace" all round they are destined to a terrible defeat in every race...
...likened the pace of a snail...