Word: went
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Dartmouth the students seem not to have appreciated Fast Day. "Fast Day came and went as such days usually do, devoted to odd jobs and various time-killing expedients. Quite a number went to Lebanon to attend the services of the Methodist Conference, and meetings were held in the vestry here at the usual hours. But the majority seemed to be employed in getting over the effects of the entertainment of the night before...
...Washington. This leader is famous only for carrying a hatchet instead of a sword. The war raged violently for four or seven years, - accounts differ; during a battle in the town, Hollis Hall, one of the principal buildings, was burnt. The final battle was at a place that went by the name of "The Annuals." The government was completely defeated, and fell into the hands of their subjects. After some discussion they were placed in boats, in bands of six or eight, and compelled to row out to sea. This the men called the "withdrawal from the association." The officers...
...printing-office. We left abt. 6 o'k in the morning, and were set across the river at Charlestown. We reached Cambridge abt. 8 o'k. It is not a large village, and the houses stand very much apart. The college building is the most conspicuous among them. We went to it expecting to see something curious, as it is the only college or would-be academy of the Protestants in all America; but we found ourselves mistaken. In approaching the house we neither heard nor saw anything mentionable; but going to the other side of the building we heard...
...came to pass that Cute waxed hungry, and he went into a shop and began to eat. And the master of the shop said unto him, " Hast thou wherewith to pay for that which thou eatest?" And Cute said unto him, " Hold thy peace...
...fill, he arose to depart. And the master of the shop stood in his way, and said unto him, "Give me my due." Now the master of the shop was of small stature; and Cute seized him and beat his head upon the floor, and took his garment, and went his way. And the garment was rich and shapely...