Word: wente
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down the back stairs I went...
...Went straightway home; Tom did the same...
...week before the wedding-day, just at nightfall, when George went out alone, to walk over to the Haddens,' - no very great distance. He had gone but a little way when a stranger who had been following him along the sidewalk stepped quickly up behind and laid a quiet hand upon his shoulder...
...from sister, yea, from his cousin also. And on his back was strapped a great burden of books, but in his head had he none. And Lighthead journeyed forth from his kindred thus, declaring that he would learn wisdom and taste of the tree of knowledge. And as he went (gently reclining in a Palace Car of the fabric Pullman) an elderly lady, kind and exceeding curious, made bold to ask him wherefore he sallied forth thus alone. To which Lighthead replied, "I go to the College Harvard." "Nay," quoth the dame, "'tis a naughty place. Prithee turn back...
...next I saw Lighthead joined to a band, more than two hundred strong, which was going to abide in Vanity Fair four years. And the burden of books that was upon him grew lighter as he went on; and he sought for knowledge in other ways. And he became expert in shuffling bits of pasteboard, covered with red and black spots; and he could tell the difference between the nut-brown ale of Vanity Fair and the red wine of Macon; and he no longer journeyed afoot, but in the wagon of one Shark. And Lighthead struggled often...