Word: took
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Hulloa, old man!' cried Browser; 'such a deuced funny thing happened the other day! Deuced pretty girl took me for you, you know, - had a long walk with her. Bad grind on you, old man! Capital...
...fact is," continued my chum, "that Browser is a terrible liar. I did n't believe that she flirted at all, and told her so, and then I took her hand, and then...
NINE Sophomores took highest second-year Honors in Classics, while only two Seniors and three Juniors have taken the same...
Thus young Van Duzer, whose papa is an ornament of our first social circles and senior member of the firm of Van Duzer, Van Nostrum, and Drench, is a melancholy confirmation of this fact. This young gentleman took a Fine Arts course last winter, and ever since has been impressing upon his kind old father and simple-minded mother the necessity of his satisfying his mind in regard to the existence of the flying buttress in the best examples of Romanesque architecture. But alas! this estimable youth, instead of being in some quiet town, architecturally rich in the relics...
...Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself and his revered grandparents. Ever since then the money has burnt in his pocket, and has nearly eaten its way through two pairs of Poole's best trousers. The ingenious youth's intention is to increase his pile, if possible...