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...trifle with me! do not make a jest of my love! My love! Oh, Madge, do not tempt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/1/1882 | See Source »

...spite of the recent losses suffered by miscreants appropriating "shingles," several societies still tempt fortune by leaving their shingles out several nights in succession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/18/1882 | See Source »

...recommendations. It 's an interesting state, one that is warranted to fascinate the fair sex. Then it 's a sure remedy for unpleasant engagements; and you can shake a bore on the strength of it every time. But, my young friend, do not allow these allurements to tempt you into the rash path that leads per asthma ad astra. Breathing slowly and peaceably is a boon which you will learn how to appreciate when you have finished your diurnal sweater of five miles, - a mere nothing, Jim will call it. No! If a man bores...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRAINING EXPOSED. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

...Chum, slowly coming to, gathers his fractured members from debris of boot jack, murmurs incoherently, "Kiss me, mother, ere I die." "Get up, you drivelling idiot," I muttered, "and for the love of heaven collect me a bottle of seltzer." Chum exits, muttering something about "O tempt us! O more ease," whatever that may mean. Never suspected it before, but think chum has been drinking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL BROKE UP. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...been too often shown that the average undergraduate mind thirsts for novelty, and is attracted for the time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this end in view would it not be possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »

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