Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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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...
CHRISTMAS is near at hand, and no one should forget their goodies and their men when they go away. The winter is a hard one, and it would be well if some one in each entry of the College buildings would undertake the work of collecting a purse for the servants of the entry...
...play it pretty well...
...said I. "Well, prove," said...
...reasons for setting forth this project at the present time, which to some may seem to be unnecessarily early, are as follows: In the first place it is well known that "great bodies move slowly," and as this is an undertaking which requires considerable time to get under way, and still further time for completion, it is well, in such a matter, to take time by the forelock. In the second place, although Juniors have had frequent calls for contributions made upon them during the past month, still at present they are less subject to these demands than at other...