Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tell the truth, I was inordinately delighted to have Jack come. I had found it pretty dull penned up in that little country boarding-house all summer with nine girls, and myself the only masculine juvenile on the premises...
...morrow. Ah, better for him had that morrow never dawned! After wrapping up his soiled linen in a neat bundle for the janitor, he was about to get into bed when he stepped quite unexpectedly on a tack. Was it an omen of the ills to follow? Who can tell? "Gosh ding it!" exclaimed Guy. (This is an Oberlin oath sanctioned by Mrs. Hayes...
...Captain relapsed into the quiet complacency of one who had a good story to tell to expectant listeners. "It was about twilight when we two - Jackson and I - set out on horseback from Rio Janeiro. We were going to pay a visit to an old friend of ours, Don Reggio, whose place was about twenty miles outside the city...
...amazement, I heard a gay peal of laughter ahead. On a sudden, in my mad rush, I came upon a group of ladies and gentlemen. I halted, and we were surrounded at once by a sympathizing crowd. At last I recovered myself so far as to be able to tell what had happened. My recital was received with shouts of laughter. Nettled at this reception, I demanded an explanation. Some of the gentlemen proposed to return with us (Jackson was all right by this time) and solve the mystery. We consented, stipulating that they should lead the way. When...
...reason to congratulate ourselves on the uniform courtesy of our instructors, but an instance of rudeness has recently become known to us, which, in our opinion, needs criticism. A student who had been prevented from attending recitations on account of sickness, on his return asked the instructor to tell him the amount of work done by the class in his absence. The instructor declined in a way that, impolite in itself, was rendered doubly so by his peevish manner. An instructor must understand that it lies entirely with himself to gain the respect and to excite the interest...