Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Golden Age again sheds its brightening beams upon mankind, when virtue again reigns supreme throughout the world, and when, what is most important, youth ceases to be youth and loses all the characteristics of impulsiveness and fire that make it youth, then perhaps this good, kind preacher may tell us that we would be better, purer and more fitted to wear the augelic wings if we would only let "exalting, refining womanhood stand by our side to aid us in our weak moments," to use his own language, but he must remember that the millenium is not yet here...
...travels. A woman arrives at the depot three minutes ahead of train time; she has to kiss seven persons, say good-by to thirteen others, send her love to twenty-two relatives, and see to four parcels; she accomplishes it all and has forty-one seconds to spare to tell a dear friend how to mix seven different ingredients into a mince pie. - How long did it take the train to reach Chicago...
...number of hard blows, Spalding escaping several well-directed blows from Smith, by very skilful ducking. There was some doubt at first whether the third round could be fought, but finally the men put in their appearance. In this round Smith succeeded in getting in some pretty and telling hits, but the bout was awarded to Spalding by the judges. The second bout brought forward Joseph Dorr, Jr., '83, and E. K. Butler, Jr., 83. Both parties in the first round sparred in a very lively manner, exciting much applause. Popular feeling seemed in favor of Butler, on account...
...tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits in the first place, smoke no cigars, drink no wine, own no armchair, and stick to the law, Tom, without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world...
...letter, just received by a gentleman at Hartford from a friend in China, tells what the students, lately recalled from this country, are doing. Fifty-one have been distributed as follows: Twenty to the telegraph office, eight to the medical school, ten to the torpedo school, seven to the mining school, four to the customs department, and two to the government docks. The rest, about forty in number, are in the naval school in Tientsin. A letter from one of the students indicates that the official wrath has been somewhat appeased by the discovery that the boys have not foresworn...