Word: spare
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Smith Russell in "Edgewood Folks" is announced at the Museum. We are glad to announce that Mr. Russell has signified his readiness, in response to a numerously-signed petition, to spare us the rendition of that beautiful ballad about having completed all the peculiar roles that Nature, in her all-provident way, has imposed upon the youth who has not reached the age when it behooves him to believe that he has a moustache - "I'm gittin' a big b'hoy neow" - in short...
Another kind of work of an altogether different character occupies the spare time of many students, viz., literary labor. The least profitable and the least pursued is newspaper work. The college papers are seldom run on a money-making basis. The work which brings the most money into the student's pocket is the writing of special articles and special correspondence for the leading papers of Boston, New York, Chicago, in fact of nearly every city in the country. The New York Herald, World, and Tribune, the Chicago Inter-Ocean and Tribune, the Philadelphia News...
...Chronicle; that our own poor short-comings and those of this great university should be so confounded by the Chronicle is lamentable, to say the least, if not indicative of erratic thoughts. "Harvard," continues the Chronicle, with an evident determination to do its duty in the premises and spare no one,-"Harvard is by far the most deserving of rebuke, as most of the other colleges are not oblivious to the fact that there is a part of the intellectual and cultured class which does not dwell in the East...
...morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece in the spare-room and had taken pains to speak of it in the hearing of Mrs. Butterfield, who had taken more than usual pains with her saleratus biscuits and coffee, and the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot had been more than usually "thankful for what we are about to receive...
...will add here, for the benefit of the uninitiated, that the "spare room" is a large square apartment on the first floor, and is kept solely for the use of visitors, such as members of Mrs. Butterfield's family, delegates to the conference - when the conference is held at Saug Centre - and an occasional minister from a neighboring town who may exchange with the Rev. C. Alexander Dingley, the present pastor of the M. E. Church at Saug Centre...