Word: stay
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...intoxicated and commence fighting, and perhaps kill one another, or get their eyes knocked out, or their teeth punched down their throat. Some men, when they go in a saloon, do not get drunk, but gamble and lose all of their money. It would be better for them to stay at home; for the bar-room is the place...
Also no students could, "under any pretence whatever, use the company or familiar acquaintance of persons of ungirt and dissolute life," or be present at any "Courts, Elections, Faires, Traineings," etc., without leave; and, finally, they were not allowed to "stay out of the Colledge after nine of the clock at night, nor watch after eleven, nor have a light before four in the morning, except upon extraordinary occasions...
...ringlets let the ripples stay...
...soul-ghosts never stay...
...they remained there that night and the next day, fixing the compasses (which, by the way, we afterwards found to be all wrong) and getting sober. The next evening we finally got rid of them, to the great sorrow of the stewardess who had hoped that "her Rufus" would stay a little longer. However, she did not miss him much. There were three New York Club men on board...