Word: went
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...went well until Dana Hill was passed, when a tall, stately, aesthetic-looking maiden entered the car, and walked in a highly cultured manner through the straw toward where our Senior was sitting. Now, as the reader doubtless knows, aesthetics will crop out in sitting down as well as in the more important concerns of life...
...first saw Tennyson twenty years ago in a London restaurant. I was a young man then; but I knew him, and I saw that he knew me, for he pretended to be greatly absorbed in a copy of the London Times. But I went up and greeted him heartily; and then I seated myself at the table, and ordered a brace of mutton-chops and a glass of 'alf-and-'alf. Tennyson was eating corned beef and cabbage with great relish, and I noticed that he invariably divided the portion of food upon his plate into triangular bits before conveying...
...went where I always feel most gone...
...Dukingham, disguised as Tom and Jerry, started out in search of the golden fleas. They were arrested on suspicion of being students, but the Golden Buck clearly showed by his language that he had never studied, and Charlie said he was a "subby," so they released them. They then went to Spain. There one day they met the infatuating infanta, escorted by a large and pleasing bull...
...DULLSTON SLOEMAN ("never went in for that sort of thing, you know"). - "I see how one can find out how large and how far away the stars are, but, by Jove! I don't quite see how they ever found out their names...