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...wont fair maidens' fates to tell...
...people of C-nc-rd are chiefly remarkable for their great development of brain. Whether this growth is due to the exhalations of a neighboring stream, or to the proximity of a battle field where, they are wont to assert, a battle was once fought, is still a matter of some doubt. A thoroughly impartial examiner might say that indications were slightly in favor of the latter hypothesis, judging from the undue pride they exhibit over certain perforations in the side of a house, said to have been made by bullets in the above-mentioned battle...
...have heard, the programme of the annuals meets with better satisfaction this year than those publications are wont to receive. The class of men who are desirous that the order of examinations should be published early have no just ground for complaint; and the plan of putting the examinations in the Sophomore required work in the middle instead of at the end meets with decided favor. Many are relieved to find no afternoon examinations on the list, fear having been felt that this plan, which proved so objectionable in mid-years, would again be resorted to, in order to save...
...longer to serve the old house-dog for a comfortable lounge. It was to know the feet that frequent a college entry. The sights and sounds of its new experience had little in common with those of its first fair year, although, perhaps, the unsteady steps that were wont to cross it late o' nights did call to memory the little feet that toddled over it when the baby ran out on the front lawn to pick buttercups...
...great bear, wandering at her will, as was her wont among the children at their play, first tasted blood, as it flowed from a child's foot pierced by a thorn...