Word: watching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...soon after passing the finish as I could, I checked his wild speed, and looked at my watch. Three minutes and five seconds! Subtracting fifteen seconds, which must have elapsed after we crossed the line before I stopped him, it would reduce the time to two minutes and fifty seconds, and my first attempt to trot him on time, too! Oh, I'd soon have him down to two-eight! I waited a moment to give an opportunity to any pieces I might have left behind to overtake us, and then drove townward with a smile of triumph...
...reading-room, &c. I then went off at a tangent to one of the smaller tables, where I answered the same old questions for the Dean of my faculty, and received a further addition to my store of documents. I was now free to return to my seat and watch the rest of the crowd going through the same ordeal...
...eyes that watch the dreamless dead...
...well posted on bicycles." That was too much. With one feeble wail I passed into oblivion. . . . .I remained in oblivion three days, returning on Sunday; very opportunely, as the reduction of fares on the U. R. R. took effect on that day. I now sit in my window and watch the professors, and occasionally a student, go to recitation. Don't imagine that I'm wasting my time. Far from it: I am writing a Cobden Prize Essay on, "Satan viewed as the originator of two-wheeled locomotion; or, several substantial reasons why I wish I had never been born...
...bound to regard with some jealousy any sport that is likely to draw away good material from the Eleven and Nine, and divide the interest to any considerable extent, still there seems to be room for all. So we wish those interested in Lacrosse all success, and shall watch their progress with much attention...