Word: topped
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their bad ones. But by all means the most tiresome person is the man who asks questions. Twenty times in the hour he will call out, "Mr. -, I don't see how two and two make four," or, "Please explain the passage on page 63, fifth line from the top." He is entirely regardless of the feelings either of his classmates or of the instructor, whom he interrupts without compunction. One would think that the number of times his advances have been but coldly received would have taught him to be wise, but he minds not repulse, - Merses profundo, pulchrior...
...What we have seen is this: A fire, caused by some defect in a chimney, breaks out an hour before noon; the two fire-extinguishers kept in the building are produced and found utterly useless; the city fire department is called upon, the building is drenched with water from top to bottom, and, after three hours' work, the flames are extinguished. The manner in which the fire department did its work has been criticised, - too severely, undoubtedly, and yet not altogether unjustly. We shall not enter into a discussion of the matter, for in our report of the fire...
...interest even by the colored prints that adorn so many of our college rooms. The "meet" took place within the grounds of a gentleman's place, and nothing could be more picturesque than the sight of the large pack of hounds, and the "whip" in his red coat and top-boots riding around them, calling them all by name. By degrees the different gentlemen and ladies arrived, and before long one who had formerly been the master of the hounds, - a fine-looking old gentleman with snow-white hair and whiskers and ruddy cheeks. The "whip" sounded the horn...
...sleight-of-hand operations which this gentleman performed were, to say the least, wonderful. At his bidding the Tub transformed itself into a two-story French-roofed dwelling-house, with all the modern improvements, furnished most elegantly from top to bottom, while through the windows Diogenes himself could be seen, playing ball-pool upon the magnificent billiard-table which graced the second-story front-room...
...past fifteen years this paragraph has been going the rounds of the press. I am sorry to see it again; but I suppose that the editorial barrel has been again turned, and that this reminder of "Auld Lang Syne" has come to the top...