Word: began
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Ferdy began to feel better when they started, his long legs taking him along with the head men across the Common. "Ah," thought Ferdy, "now they'll see 'the telegraph poles' ain't so bad," and Ferdy "hitted 'er up" across the fences, and was soon at the head of the line, and the "whipper in" crying to him not to go so blankety fast or he'll tire out the crowd. As they run up the street Ferdy begins to have, oh, such a pain in his side, and you can hear his heart go thumpety-thump against...
...were introduced, and I began: "Miss Gabriel...
...shrugged her shoulders like a French woman. "Don't you see them?" she asked. Of course I had to see them, so I remarked that they were very pretty. "Young man," she began again, "have you any peanuts with...
PROFESSOR TROWBRIDGE began a course of lectures on the "Philosophy of Physics," at the Lowell Institute, Monday evening...
HARVARD FRESHMEN VS. ST. MARK'S.THE game began at 2.15 P. M., with Harvard at the bat. After seven innings were played, the game was called at 4.30 P. M., as by a previous agreement between the two captains, to enable the visitors to catch the last train from Southborough for Boston. As St. Mark's was ahead at this point, the Freshmen were naturally dissatisfied. St. Mark's courteously consented to go on with the game, but decided among themselves to stop at the end of the next half, whatever the result, being determined to cling to the original...