Word: spent
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Their meal was spent; strong hands grew trembling, weak...
...thought Mr. B -, the agent, was rather a fine-appearing mendicant. I remembered then that my chum had been purchasing quite a library within a few weeks. He promised better things, but after that I was suspicious, and when on careful investigation I discovered that my chum had spent in a certain week $5.48 in penny-ante, beer at Carl's, and a subscription to the Cricket Club, and that in the same week just $5.48 had been drawn out of the box for beggars while I was out of the room, I thought it time to drop the plan...
...Student's eyes. We are sorry to see the matter so indisputably settled. How have our idols fallen! Before reading The Student, we had always regarded Dickens as quite a good author, - brilliant, interesting, and instructive. But no, it can't be so; for "Dickens's life was spent chiefly to amuse idle people; albeit, we must acknowledge that incidentally he was useful, once in a while, by exposing social defects and vices." Poor Dickens! Some people are foolish enough to look back with pleasure upon his last visit to this country, and will carry for many years the impressions...
...Near half our precious lives are spent...
Those who object to this custom of supporting a paper in college urge that what time is spent in writing the spicy article or in discussing college topics could better be spent over Greek plays or on the Merovingian dynasty. While no one can doubt the propriety of doing the latter, still it is a pertinent question to ask, wherein have such studies any superiority over writing as a means of discipline. Moreover, it is a recognized fact that the men most ready to write are those who are also most ready to study. In this case there need...