Word: tell
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...spite of eloquent appeals to the Dean and carefully worded petitions to the Faculty, I have been suspended (they are very strict at Harvard now). Conclude to spend my vacation abroad. Walk into the Cunard Office, and carelessly demand the best berth in the next steamer. They tell me graciously that I can be accommodated in the steamer sailing three weeks from date, and not before...
...this point the fair Gray had an unusually pleasant smile. One could not see her pretty face and trusting eyes without wishing to stroke her softly, as she lovingly replied: "O my dear Tom, I so wanted to tell you, now I hope we shall see you often? You know, I am engaged to Willie Symperson, and he lives only next door to you. It will be so pleasant to be such near neighbors, won't it? It is only from to-day, but we thought it best to have it out immediately...
...Niagarensis, as it is the butt of every little high-school journal. A very "cambric tea" article, radiant with "blushing morn," "scarlet horizon," the welcoming of days "rousing sweet melancholy" in "the lymphatic and phlegmatic natures among us," gives us a feeling of sleepiness truly irresistible. We will not tell how "sanguine and choleric blood is bluishly affected," or relate the touching apostrophe to "Ontario not as yet loosened from the embrace of her frozen foe," but we ought to say that "Richard and his horse" is made to do good service. A tolling bell suggests that the "patriot...
...statesmanlike measure for the government to provide for Elementary Military Education at the universities? The duties in this department need not be arduous, nor take up more than their due proportion of time, but let every well-educated man have a little knowledge of this sort, for he cannot tell how soon he may be called upon to use it. Let not the next sudden emergency find us in the condition we were in when the Rebellion broke out, when, to quote the language of one of our leading journals, "a drill-sergeant was a man of distinction." Not that...
That is published to tell us our places and times...