Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Time of game, 2 hours...
...will wend a little stownd [time...
These legends, in poetry or prose, are well worth careful reading, not only for the quaint simplicity of the style, but also for the many really noble thoughts, and the high ideas of duty and honor characteristic of a time the chief creed of which seems to have been "to drede god, and loue ryghtwiseness, feythfully and courageously to serue your souuerayne prynce...
...student who fails to answer a summons from the Dean, Register, or Secretary at the appointed time, is expected to answer that summons at the earliest opportunity, as determined by the hours of the officer who summoned him, without waiting for a second summons. - Bulletin Board...
...critic does, and upbraid him for those weaknesses to which all mortal flesh is subject. Such ingratitude is unfilial, inhuman. Charles Sumner used to regretfully say, "The age of chivalry is gone." Were such dispositions and sentiments as our truculent critic's article shows common in our Senator's time, he might well have added, "The age of humanity, of courtesy, of urbanity, is gone." One of the worst and most common of American faults is lack of respect and reverence for what is old, venerable, and well deserving. At the risk of being old-fashioned and out of date...