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Word: wente (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Usage:

...went to some outlandish place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BORES. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

...Freshman Crew went on the river for the first time Monday. They used the University barge, and rowed well for the first trial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...knew I could n't, so I replied nothing, and she went on. "S'pose you can read French, or think you can. I like that too. Got a French book here that's jest lovely." "Let me see it," said I, hopefully. It was the "Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau"! I had had enough; I said I had an engagement to dinner, and left, while she called after me, "Come round again some afternoon, - I'm' most always here fine days, - and we might have a row on the lake." I accepted the invitation" with pleasure," and departed from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STANDARD AT WELLESLEY. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

...poor Sophomore who had laid down his elective in History 7 and had taken French 1 found that there was some punishment worse than being perpetually rocked to sleep. The Annex beauties who had exchanged their beauty for knowledge went around wailing because the scouts no longer stopped their work to carry them over the college puddles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIALS OF COLLEGE LIFE. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

...oarsman who had made the unlucky swap with the base-ballist went around groaning over hands which looked like miniature boxing-gloves, while the would-be oarsman was lame and sore all over...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRIALS OF COLLEGE LIFE. | 3/19/1880 | See Source »

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