Word: tins
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sidgwick's Composition," each piece being inscribed with appropriate selections from "Schmidt's Metres" and "Curtius's Etymology." He usually carried "the shield of Achilles," but as this was being used by his protege, Hellenic Duo, he carried in its stead an ingeniously constructed defence of jelly and tin combined in certain proportions. Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head...
Thus he was engaged, doing the agreeable, and was flattering himself that he was becoming a genuine "Little-Tin-God," when, to his unspeakable horror, what did he see but his own true-love, with her friend and an upper classman, whom he recognized as a relative of the latter, entering the field and taking a seat on a neighboring bench. Shipkins could have met annihilation with calm satisfaction, but to meet her, - her whom he had invited and then failed to meet, and for her to see him with another, - it was too much...
...tin roof of Weld is being repainted...
...Last summer one student, who was very shrewd and energetic, succeeded in earning his board. We need a large number of canvassers, and if you will recommend to us pupils of yours, we engage, on our part, to send you for every canvasser a prize-package and full-size tin-type of the celebrated sandlots agitator. - Henry Bill...
...success and sale of the "Little Tin-Gods-on-Wheels" has been remarkable...