Word: went
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...last year to dine in state on the platform, and were well satisfied with their repasts; at least we never heard of any result of their visits: but I would ask them to remember that, very naturally, they may have been better served than we, or that, while they went home to a comfortable dinner in the evening, we had to come to a tea-table as meagre as our lunch-table is now, and especially that we are at that period of our lives at which we are developing most rapidly in body and mind, and that...
...drunk. While in this state she lost the bunch of keys which serve as an insignia of her office and admit her to our various dens. A new goody was appointed, and the next morning only those rooms were attended to which happened to be opened when she went her rounds. Remonstrated with for neglect, she said that the College expected a new key to be provided by the occupant of each of the rooms under her care. This was so contrary to any sense of justice that the Bursar was appealed to. He laid down the startling doctrine that...
Accordingly I went to work...
When the maid went to the study...
...ship went plunging onward...