Word: waters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split for the ingine, and - let's see - to-morrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin' day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there's a barrel of flour or a kag of whiskey for the baggage-car, and if Bill kin put a stitch in the worst rip in the biler [here he winked...
...attendant, coming back, felt my pulse, then the doctor came and felt it, then a cold bandage was put on my head, and my feet were put into hot water, a tumbler of cold water was administered. I said to myself, "I 'm one of those that can't stand it; but they are going to put me through at all risks." I was roused from my stupor by silent attendant's shaking me, and pointing to a door. Tried to go through the door, but backed out instantly. After another effort, succeeded, and found myself again in a chair...
Solemn attendant now perpetrated a joke; my eyes opened wide at the word "Sherry," but it was only water he handed me! - joke; like the place, ghastly. Another shake, another pointing of the finger, and I found myself in what would have done well for a glass furnace. Thermometer here made desperate efforts to get out of the case. I was just about saying, "I shall put off my bath till another day," when my guide came in and sadly led the way to a little room in which was a slab. Obeying signs, I stretched myself out and felt...
...crews pull, are unable to do so at the cost of so great a part of their vacation; and Harvard is forced to undergo considerable additional expense to support her crew while waiting for the race. This race, besides, must be rowed at a great summer resort, where the water is no better than at other places nearer home; (for where else can fourteen boats row abreast? and if the boats do not row abreast, how is each individual small college to know its exact position relative to every other little college?) and in virtue of the fact that...
...running expenses, certain rules of the H. U. B. C. will be enforced in the spring more strictly than they have been hitherto. The running expenses will amount each year to a little more than five hundred dollars, - four hundred dollars for rent and one hundred dollars for water-rates...