Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...first I would not let her talk; but she seemed so well, and so assured me that she felt strong, that at last I let her go her own gait...
...know how blind the gate to the Dilly's Avenue is. Well, Fred - he was driving - never can remember when he gets to it. So, as we came up the road at a pretty sharp pace, for this was our last point, I heard Mary cry, "Left, Fred, left, or we'll pass it!" And he hauled the borses square round; and we behind saw the old sleigh go up on one runner slowly, and then down on its side amid a fountain of shrieks and screams...
...things: in fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience with absolute disregard to popular opinion, and in fearlessly speaking whenever there is a principle at issue. Foibles should be cheerfully tolerated, but not immorality. If, for example, when that amiable idiot Hollis Holworthy (now well known through the Lampoon) is talking like a "Harvard man" about how he is going to be "as full as a goat" to-night, etc., etc., some one would delicately but intelligibly intimate that H. H. was gobbling like a gosling, though it is true that the "tough" H. H. might...
...faces more bright, except perhaps the pallid faces of Freshmen who are on their way to the examination-room. There they will become oblivious to everything but the proctors, while they scribble the accumulated lore of a night's grind or a crib upon the pages of the well-named blue-book; and when the last of those tragedies - or farces, if you will - is over, they, too, will be as merry as the rest...
...happy man is the homeward-bound Freshman. He will carry that green worsted bag, emblazoned with his initials, - which might as well be Hannibal's, for nobody can decipher them, - and a very little bag, containing his toothbrush. He will walk through the train twice. He knows every one will see that he is a collegian; but he forgets that every one will see what is equally obvious, - that he is a Freshman. We pardon him, for we confess to a slight thrill of pride when first a mucker called out after us, "Hi! look at the Harvard...