Word: sup
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...always talking about it. Little Biggs's father had made a fortune, in petroleum, I believe, and little B. himself was as generous as he was small. He never could see you without asking you to dine with him, or to go to the theatre with him, and sup with him after it; and he always insisted on paying the bill for the entire company. The result was that the decent half of the world took it into its head that he was a toady, and cut him altogether; while the other half sponged on him, as a matter...
...These difficulties they had not foreseen, and could not exist in duck-shooting, which we determined to try that afternoon. But, alas for our high hopes, ducks there were none, and after an hour's shooting at a target, in hopes of attracting the birds, we returned home to sup off the ducks that little boy had shot...