Word: thought
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...congratulated on the invention of such a Chinese puzzle. Many were disposed at first to regard the placing of two or three names in spaces by themselves as an "exalting of the few at the expense of the many," but later on their minds were relieved. Happy thought! Perhaps the man who had mind enough to originate that card may be able to explain the "curve system" of marking used in German VII. and the lowness of the marks in English...
...possessed was I of the idea, that for a time it seemed to me a reality. I thought of myself as a frenzied collector running about from house to house, person to person, with a machine under my arm, asking, beseeching every one to speak to it, to sing to it, that my collection might be completed...
...even thought of my collection as celebrated; and I seemed to have asked some young ladies to my room to hear the autophones of every one, from George Francis Train to my Goody; I set the machine going, totally forgetting that I had left it open during my absence, and had left my chum in the room. Imagine my horror, when the first thing it reeled off was, "If you don't get out of this room, you d -- poco - " I hastily awoke from my reverie, and declared that autophones were out of the question. It would...
...thought as much," answered his interlocutor. "I get mine in London...
...Indeed," replied the smiling undergraduate, as he pulled down his waistcoat and readjusted his neck-dressing. "Is it possible that you Sunflowers ever thought that the things you wear are in style? Do you get them at Oak Hall or Brine...