Word: sought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...classmen are apt to monopolize the places in the club boats; but the men who rowed on the Freshman crew in their Sophomore year are in capital trim to take the places in the boats of the men who have graduated. Again, men in the Freshman class are more sought for to make up a class crew by a captain of their own class than they would be by the club captains, who know what some men are worth in a race, and prefer to have tried men in the boat, and not to risk a race by putting...
Wandering among the historic fields of Westchester in a year which will be a "glorious year for America" if bells, cannons, and newspapers can make it so, I caught the Centennial fever! Every historical spot, from the "dead man's swamp" to the battle-field of White Plains, was sought out with patriotic zeal. I even tried to stop and drink at every old farm-house where Washington is said to have refreshed himself, but I gave it up. (G. W. must have been uncommonly thirsty...
...Sucked in to kiss itself," as if it sought...
Only in fantasy e'er to be sought...
...eagerness with which the tickets to the tree are sought shows that in reality our friends do not by any means object to seeing us act as boys, even though in theory they are compelled to blush for us, and may declare the frolic to be disgraceful...