Word: take
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...annual winter concert given by the Pierian Sodality and Glee Club in Lyceum Hall will not take place this year, owing to the illness of the leader of the Glee Club, and the unwillingness of its members to give this concert without...
NOAH. Look here, sir! Don't you know it's against the rule to take those cards from the drawer...
...society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word in regard to his "memorandum." When, at a thoughtless moment, I paid him, he seemed surprised at the fact, and mournful that he was deprived of further pretext for visiting...
...been wickedly stolen; the most have been clandestinely borrowed. Students and others residing in Divinity Hall, and perhaps graduates not resident, have sometimes a feeling in reference to this Library (a vague presumption of right or property in it) by which they may be led, when opportunity offers, to take away books contrary to rule and without permission; and they may afterwards return them secretly to get a discharge from conscience; or else lose them; or keep them an indefinite time, with an undefined purpose and with no lively consciousness of wrong-doing...
...moments before attending to their morning recitations; so that, if what they wish to read happens to be in the possession of some one else, they will prefer to wait till evening when there will be every probability of their being able to secure it, rather than to take the chances of its being given up within a reasonable time. We therefore propose for consideration the expediency of placing a single jet, at least, in a position which shall throw a sufficient amount of light upon these papers to allow of their being read comfortably...