Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...variety of changes of this furnace makes it almost equal to a summer vacation and shows conclusively that Plato's statement was made without regard to furnaces. There are registers in four of the rooms; in the parlor, in the dining-room, the parental bed chamber and in the "spare room...
Then I felt sure Mr. Butterfield, senior, had sandy hair and a sandy beard, and was long and thin, what his neighbors called "rather a spare man;" I had also decided that he had large hands and feet, and wore spectacles and storeclothes; that he was bigotedly honest and never touched a drop of anything...
...across the following passage of a letter written by Daniel Webster to his son Fletcher, who was about to be graduated at Harvard, in 1833: "I have seldom felt so much concern about anything of the kind as I do upon your success upon that occasion. I pray you spare no pains. Do your best, and you will do well enough. I earnestly remind you of the necessity of acting with great caution in regard to all festivities. You remember what I said to you on that head, and I pray you forget no part of it." - [Scholastic...
...voice travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time; she has to kiss seven persons, say good-by to thirteen others, send her love to twenty-two relatives, and see to four parcels; she accomplishes it all and has forty-one seconds to spare to tell a dear friend how to mix seven different ingredients into a mince pie. - How long did it take the train to reach Chicago...
...half the amount necessary to run the nine well this year. He has been told by a number of men "to call again," but those persons should remember that there are over two hundred men in this class, and that the manager has not a sufficient amount of spare time to call upon each member two or three times. A man can usually subscribe as well at one time as at another. Others have said that they took no interest in base ball, and so refused to subscribe on this ground...