Word: sneaking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...T.ARE WE SNEAK THIEVES?TO THE EDITORS OF THE CRIMSON...
...entrance here, - they certainly must have had some Fagan to teach them the trade. I should recommend to the Class Day Committee to put placards on the trees, for the benefit of those who are unacquainted with the kleptomania of some of us, reading as follows: "Beware of student sneak thieves and pickpockets...
...refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable that they feel aggrieved...
...Please, sir,' said my captor, 'I 've nabbed a sneak thief trying to steal a ride on the back of the tender!' 'What!!!' said the conductor, 'you can't come that dodge on me ! No deadheads on the 10.40 express, I can tell you. Pay ten dollars at once...
...daily duties. We have twenty recitations a week. My hardest branches are Spelling and arithmetic. In y latter I find compound fractures especially difficult Most of y college felloes are goode and pious, but there are two whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them, but I fear lest the devil harden their hearts against repentance. Now, I must say farewell...