Word: steps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...poetical inspiration seized me when standing on the platform of the sleeping-car last night. The practical and material conceptions were suggested in the coal-closet. I came back here only to find the fire out, and while I was trying to shake out the ashes I heard your step. I thought I would let you finish the job, and therefore jumped into the coal-hole. Much obliged to you for this cheerful blaze, by the by. Can I do anything for you ?" "Yes," said I, "you have a prior right to the management of this fire, so suppose...
...know that in the existing order of things at Harvard there are many glaring inconsistencies. We all likewise hope that in some future golden age these present defects will be remedied. The first step toward correcting a fault is to call attention to it, and I wish therefore to speak of the facilities afforded us for learning the French and German languages respectively. In regard to the comparative worth of the two languages, no one will deny that to students (as some of us are really supposed by the outside barbarians to be) a knowledge of German has the more...
...staring disconsolately at the shelves, in vain straining my eyes for the wished-for book, a youth came along, mounted the step-ladder, and, removing some books on the top shelf, brought from behind them the very book I was looking for. The mystery was solved. Instead of some studious person having the book, it was an extremely selfish individual, who, in order to have the book when he desired it, had deprived many others from using it in the meanwhile. This is done through selfishness. Another cause of our being deprived of books is carelessness : a student finishing...
...with stealthy step approaching...
This seemed plausible, and I told him so, but there were many conditions which he had not considered; such as - and I stopped to listen to a step on the stair, a soft and catlike step, as of one in his stocking-feet. "Some one has stolen Jones's boots," whispered my chum...