Word: went
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Arrived at the sawmill his transcendental genius came into play. He had a burning, an overwhelming, desire to do something original. He proposed to cross the mill-pond on the logs, casually remarking that it was perfectly safe. His girl - well, she trusted in Diggles and went; so did a youth from Amherst (Diggles said he always went everywhere). The others prudently sat on the bank and waited. Every voice was hushed, every heart stopped beating, as hand-in-hand the dauntless three approached the margin of the deep black waters...
...length the storm, which had been so long gathering, burst. The edict of the president and his wife went forth, commanding the two offenders to appear before them; and grimly they awaited the arrival...
...from his pocket the object on which he had spent so much anxious thought and his last X. He unfolded the wrappings of tissue paper and presented the diary to the janitor, accompanying the gift with a description of its mechanism. The janitor was much pleased, and Fitz-Clarence went round to Adam's to brace...
...Exeter. The Exonian gives, in substance, the following account: About one-fourth of the whole number of students in the Academy, wishing to express their disapproval of the action of the Faculty in removing two young men from the Academy, and in expelling one more of their number, went around to the professors' houses at night and gave a tin-horn serenade. After the serenade some persons who probably were not in the Academy went to the houses of two of the professors and broke some glass in the doors and windows, - a proceeding which the students did not intend...
...must admit that if the echoes from Sanders made Sophocles turn in his grave, it was with a sigh of relief that his immortal production had been at last freed from the conventionalities and restrictions of a Greek festival, and rendered with its full dignity, grace, and power. We went to see a piece of antiquarianism, and we came away feeling that we had indeed seen a tragedy...