Word: talkeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Members of a college nine, like all other students, have something to do besides to play ball. The present league, in view of the new regulations of our own faculty - regulations which will probably be adopted into other colleges - is already too large, and to talk about adding to it is simply to talk nonsense...
...that's mamma; such a bother as she was; we have no oven and had to have her fired out of the house." And Scruples, who is not versed in the technicalties of china painting, goes off in doubt whether it is worse to be unfilial or to talk along. - [Life...
...Young Ladies' Journal states that the most learned woman in the world is a young lady of twenty, now residing in Paris. She is a native of India, and can read and write and talk in twelve languages, having a wonderful gift in that way, besides being well up in mathematics, astronomy and history. She is studying medicine, and will go to India to practice, where she says thousands of her countrywomen die every year because they will not consult male physicians...
...tent, backed by a brush shanty. "It was a risky thing to do, especially bringing along Elsie, my sister, who is just thirteen, and prettier than she used to be. But I am one of the 'prominent citizens' here, - you know I always was a good shot, - and after talking it over with other 'prominent citizens,' I thought I'd risk it. As it is, all has turned out very well. Elsie is the first respectable woman under sixty who has come to Bodie, and she is creating a regular furor. She holds a reception every evening; the miners form...
While Elsie was being let down, I caught a few words of whispered talk between Travers and the others, from which I inferred that they were still suspicious of Colney, the man who had opposed Elsie's election into the "Company," and so had managed to put him at work in a side drift, leading off about half way down the shaft, which, as no vein of ore had been "struck" there, it was not worth while for us to visit...