Word: went
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...CAMBRIDGE young lady was invited by different gentlemen to the theatre every night in the week. She went to the same theatre and saw the same play every time...
...went to find Edith. She was alone on the piazza, and she looked up with such a sadly tender face as I approached! - Well, I told her that I had been seized with sudden faintness, and that was all. I asked where her brother was; I was sorry for my seeming rudeness; and Mr. Edmund himself appeared then, and begged me say no more about it. We fell a-talking with each other. I could not help be impressed with the charm of his manner, for he reminded me very distinctly of his sister. Surely there was no dark hidden...
...coat over the gaping rents, felt of my abused proboscis, and was pleased to find that useful member, though perceptibly worn, still firm in its place. With the support of the railing I remounted, and slowly and painfully began the circuit of the hall. Round and round I went, oft diving into the railing, every few minutes affectionately embracing a post or two, dismounting at the most unexpected moments, and in the most unprecedented manner, and alighting on every conceivable part of my body, except on my feet; occasionally hurled with prodigious velocity into the ceiling, and again cleaving great...
...habitual performer on the cornet. He spent whole months in pursuing the nefarious calling of a book-agent. He sank lower and lower. He was at one time the most degraded free-lunch fiend in all Hoboken. Finally, even the last vestiges of respectability were thrown aside, and he went to Yale. What need to chronicle his future infamy? Let us shudder as we reveal the last act of his appalling moral cataclysm; for - sh - h! - he actually sank to the very depths of crime, and became the senior editor of the Wreckord...
...Went out to walk upon the mall...