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...excused. We don't play that kind of polo. We are lazy, it must be granted, but still it looks rather well to trot through our games on ponies, and, since we trot through our classics in the same way, everything is in keeping, and the tout ensembles admirable! See? To be sure, our polo players have never played anybody, and odds are even if they ever do, but we have never been defeated in polo yet, and shan't be until Yale or some other college sends a rival team cantering into the lists, on real, live ponies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/8/1885 | See Source »

...general negligee of his tout ensemble would seem to indicate that he was either a maniac or a college professor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 12/22/1882 | See Source »

...Arrias a tout lu, a tout vu, il veut le persuader ainsi; c'est an homme universel, et il se donne pour tel il aime mieux mentir que de se taire ou de paraitre ignorer quelque chose." - LA BRUYERE...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WELL-INFORMED MAN. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...extra material"? A nine containing extra material might either be a nine of overfed men, or (strange and paradoxical though it may seem) it might be a nine with more than nine men in it; but a nine made up of extra material is indeed a wonderful thing. Apres tout, perhaps it only means that the material is extra good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...demande tout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REVERIE. | 12/18/1874 | See Source »

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