Word: yes
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Very much - shall I say it? - ah yes, - like a kiss...
...Yes, there's no use in denying it, we are cliquish; even Doggy can't prove the contrary, though he says there's no reason why Quiet, whom no one ever notices, should n't enjoy college; and we have a great many cliques, and very narrow ones. In each class there are one or two swell cliques, devoted to lawn-tennis and clothes; an athletic set, who spend hours in exercise of various sorts, and the rest of their time in feeling each other's muscles, and reading the "Spirit of the Times"; a studious crowd, to which...
...long ago, a Junior was out riding with one of Amherst's beauties by his side, when, looking up pensively into his face, she said with tears in her eyes, "Oh! no one loves me, Mr. R." "Some one does," he replied. "Yes?" said the lady, pressing his arm ever so lightly. "Yes, Miss Lizzie," continued the wretch, "God loves you." - Student...
...suppose that they are ignorant of anything. The other evening, when we were debating the authorship of "revenons a nos moutons," one of these gentlemen of wide reading smiled at our ignorance, and assured us Voltaire was the originator. When convinced, with difficulty, of his mistake, he says: "O yes, was thinking of something else; have read so much French since I came to college that I really can't remember everything...
...speaking of your friend Brown, in San Francisco. "O yes," ejaculates the man of universal information, with the air of a person who has known Brown from boyhood, and has been on intimate terms with the Brown family for three generations. You question him closely, and he says he has not seen Brown for several years; does n't suppose he should recognize him now. When questioned more closely, he admits he does not know Brown personally, but has heard a great deal about him. This is what most of his intimate friendships amount to. But his conceit is impenetrable...