Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Jimmie always took Apollinaris Water in the morning. Charlie preferred a "bracer." Jimmie believed in the proverb, "Spare the rod and spoil the child;" Charlie didn't. Jimmie thought it the best policy always to borrow, never to lend; so did Charlie. To sum up, their characters were similar in many respects and very different in others; it has often fitly been said of them that they were "clinky and didn't congeal...
...have at different times passed upon the thoroughness of the work done by the janitors. The Floor Committee will wear brooms in their button-holes, and the matrons, taken from the best known of the goodies, will be distinguished by dusters at their belts. "Mr. Matthewsalah" who, it is thought, has acquired more grace in skipping than any of the other janitors, will lead the German...
...earl smiled indulgently. He was charmed with her artlessness and spontaneity. She had a delightful little nose, too. He admired the set of her drapery. He thought of her well-invested dividends. His heart was touched. He glanced sideways - English noblemen never stare - at the title of the book she carried. It was Joseph Cook's Heredity...
...thought of being plucked, you know...
...upon the constitution, submitted by a committee composed of Roscoe C-nkl-ng, the Czar of Russia, and Mr. P-rnell. The frigid one in the corner, who had hitherto been silent, declared that it was too arbitrary, and also inconsistent with the popular manners of the Club. Dizzy thought that it might injure Turkey's influence in the English cabinet, or even pacify the Boers; and W-m Ang-ll H-vey of the Transcriber was very much averse to any measure that might increase the duty upon Hamburg edgings and corsets. "Let 'em edge!" declared...