Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great a pity it is that you students are so inconvenienced by the street-car arrangement, and how much you lose by being so far from the literary air of Boston; so, when I learned that there was no chance of an elevated road to Boston, I decided to tell you of my invention. I propose to put a pneumatic tube underground from Cambridge to Boston...
...sayings of fifty years ago, and they further resemble that excellent machine in being unable to change their ideas. Are they dogmatic? Good gracious, no! They are the most liberal men in the world, as long as you don't try to argue with them. They like to tell the old, old stories, and expect you to laugh, and they assure you that life is vapid unless spent in mastering their subject. Most of them have written a text-book which they recommend to you as the best - ah me! There is modesty even...
...Jove, you know, what - aw - bad pun, Chalky," exclaimed Sir Philip. "Let us have some cold tea - aw - and a new deal. My deal, you know." He dealt, and I regret to say, stacked the cards in a painfully amateurish way. I could tell what he was at all across the table. He produced two aces from his sleeve, too, but made a mistake in his deal, as he soon discovered...
...result of these verses was a visit from my janitor on the following afternoon. He sat down, resting his feet on the table, complimented me on my "aptitude for versification" (those were the words he used), and began to tell me of his former period of prosperity. I reserve an account of this interview for some future day, and proceed to my third valentine, written in sympathetic ink, and directed
...Pray tell him with your blandest smile