Word: spaces
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ordering a claret julep and a mint squills, drank seven glasses of brandy in succession, and forgot to, wait for the change. But I was soon startled by hearing a tremendous clicking, and there came over the line of the C. T. Co. the following message, with remarkably little space between the dots...
...Little Game" and "A Thousand a Year" at the Town Hall, Jamaica Plain, April 14, and again at Union Hall, Cambridgeport, April 16. The audiences at both places were large and quite generous in their applause, - rewards well merited by the excellence of the performance. We have not space to speak at length of the plays, but we must pay a passing compliment to Mr. McMillan, who took the leading parts in both, and distinguished them by so marked a difference of conception and style that a fresh actor seemed to walk upon the stage in the second play...
...resembles a convent. The weather-beaten walls, the barred and sombre windows, give to these structures a prison-like aspect. From four to five hundred scholars is the average contingent of a lyceum. TWO or three courts, or gravelled yards, planted with a few stunted trees, are the only space given to the sports of the scholars. Between four walls as high as those of a prison, in order to separate them as much as possible from the outside world, live these innocent prisoners. Their age varies from eight to eighteen years. Here they pass ten years of their youth...
...space to shun the world's vain cares...
THOSE papers which devote two thirds of their space to reviewing first-class periodicals, and append a list of such "exchanges," ought to be congratulated on having worked up to the higher plane of literature. Don't howl "sour grapes." They must be regarded as only a little above Dryden Springs Gazette. - Geyser...