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Word: speak (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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THEY have a piano in the gymnasium at Williams, and they speak of it as one of the gymnasium's properties. Perhaps the Williams students practise calisthenics to the sound of soft music. The Athenaeum also tells us that college students are typical grumblers. For an aphorism this is good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 3/7/1879 | See Source »

...thee coming, - spell-bound, could not speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINTER. | 1/24/1879 | See Source »

...knocked at a door on the ground-floor of Hollis. No answer. Knocked again. I heard light steps coming toward me; the door opened, and there stood a white figure in full evening dress, so to speak, gazing at me with a vacant stare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN EVENING'S EXPERIENCE. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...special elective courses offered in them from lack of time. It seems to us that much would be done for those who are too much inclined to run in special ruts by giving courses of lectures to be delivered by men who are thoroughly competent to speak upon their special subjects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...soon we 'll speak of bygone days...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JESSAMY TO JENNY. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

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