Word: speak
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...HERALD, always on the alert to furnish its readers with the latest news, is pleased to announce the discovery by a reporter of a copy of the Roman Daily Squint-Eye. We should like to speak of the Squint-Eye as an esteemed contemporary, but, with due respect for the editors, must decline to do so, for the paper was printed about A. D. 125. We present below some extracts...
...both hands full." "No undergraduate shall wear his hat in the college yard when any of the governors of the college are there; and no bachelor shall wear his hat when the president is there." "Freshmen are to consider all the other classes as their seniors." "No freshman shall speak to a senior with his hat on; or have it on in a senior's chamber, or in his own if a senior be there." "When any person knocks at a freshman's door, except in studying time, he shall immediately open the door, without inquiring who is there...
...summer, and forgot where I put it, and the weather's been so cold I didn't want to go out without an overcoat - lungs weak, you know. My friend Jared Sparks used to say that's my weak point - my lungs. I'm busy writin' a thing to speak to the boys in spring - when walkin's good - a lecture on languages, mighty fine - my chief douver - that's French...
...Greek, and, moreover, would not give any ground for the charge of affectation. Since this manner of conglomerating languages seems to have become so popular on the American stage, we shall not be in the least surprised to learn that Boucicault will soon, as Conn in the "Shaughraun," speak in Celtic while supported by an English-speaking company...
DEAR MR. EDITOR: I don't feel one bit like writing, but there are some things I want to speak to you about, and I do think it would be so nice to have you give me your opinion about them...