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Then her shyness 'gins to wane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DONE ON BOTH SIDES. | 5/21/1880 | See Source »

...that ere another moon shall wane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE RAPE OF THE BELL. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...George became more popular instead of less so. This is in dead opposition to all the authorities on the subject, I know; the bad men who have a brilliant success at first always ought to fall after a year or two, but George's popularity did n't wane worth a cent. He was elected President of lots of societies, and was looked up to with adoration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STORY OF A BAD YOUNG MAN. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...Trinity has organized a foot-ball association; but base-ball is on the wane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AT OTHER COLLEGES. | 11/3/1876 | See Source »

...DRINKING at Harvard is on the wane"; an involuntary sigh escaped me at seeing this melancholy statement in a recent College paper. Alas, these degenerate days, and this noble custom going to the dogs! Whither are we tending? Beware lest the sour old Puritanical days of New England return upon us in all their gloom...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUNC EST BIBENDUM. | 4/7/1876 | See Source »

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