Word: understanding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...TRIAL will be made very soon of two six-oar crews, to aid the selection of men for the University crew. A similar trial is to be made next spring, we understand...
...soon we were pleasantly situated on the brow of a hill commanding a view for miles about. Fully ten minutes elapsed, after the dogs were led into the woods, before the sign of a trail was struck, but suddenly the deep baying of the hounds gave all to understand that it had been found. Away went the hunting-party over fences, ditches, and stone-walls, more after the manner of a steeple-chase than a fox-hunt. The gentlemen were easily distinguished, for the most part, by their red waistcoats and jockey caps, the ladies (for there were four...
...boat soon stops at a place called Lille-hammer. I understand from my guide-book that I must hire a horse and carriole here for Drontheim. Do not know what a carriole is, but step out on the wharf and call for one loudly. A ragged urchin soon drives up in a curious-looking low gig, with long and slender shafts, inserted between which is a wonderful horse. Wonderful, because, although apparently dead, he is yet really alive. Boy talks volubly in a gibberish quite unintelligible, but as I catch the word "carriole," I conclude that it must...
...contemptuously aside. She goes to the stove, opens the door, and looks in stupidly, but, seeing no fire there, shakes her head. I tell her in English that I know there is no fire in the stove, but that I want her to build one. She pretends not to understand. I am too tired "to carry on a conversation," so give up the fire, and study the food vocabulary in my manual. The only word which I can pronounce successfully is "Kjod," which means "meat." I ask carelessly for "Kjod." She says "Ja," and goes out, but soon returns...
...morning or afternoon. He stares and replies, "Morning, of course." He drives off, saying something about a "midnight sun." So it seems that all this time while the sun has been shining, it was really night. I am disgusted with Norway, and do not understand why the sun did not set. Am afraid that something is out of order in the universe, and that we are going to have an earthquake. Perhaps it is a result of the comet. I hastily work my way back to Christiania, and leave the country by the first steamer...