Word: boots
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course we laughed, but the pesky thing had burnt right into my foot, and I was as lame as a Bull of Bashan. And then I had no string to that boot, too; so, you see, we had to walk home slowly, and there was no time for flowers if we wanted to get home before dark. So there was no grubbing that...
...SCRUBBY.Phenomena. - Pattern generally plain. Color light, - in extreme cases, canary or lavender. Smaller at knee than at either hip or ankle. Occasionally flowing over large part of boot. Somewhat kneed. Always shabby. Badly worn, in every sense. General flavor of Oak Hall...
...also asserted that, by the proposed plan, "two hours, from 4 till 6, are utilized, whereas, by the present system, no one feels like doing anything which resembles work, bodily or mental, from 2 to 4." Will not the boot fit the other leg? If the hours from 2 to 4 are at present wasted, by the proposed plan the hours from 6 to 8 will be lost. Supposing that three hours' work is to be done in the evening, this will be finished, not at 9 or 9.30, but at 11. In regard to the injuriousness of late study...
...because they were empty - and the broken glass trodden into the carpet. And as I think the matter over, I remember that Jones said something about its not being right to allow somebody to go to bed alone; that somebody chased Jones around the room, and finally threw a boot at his head as he disappeared through the door. All this is a little misty; but what followed is much clearer. I remember I sank into an arm-chair by the fire with no definite purpose in mind, but how long I sat thus I have no idea, - it might...
...more than a hundred years, and if he don't trouble you, I should say you might go on chumming with him; but if this sort of thing, you know, brings on his visits, you can leave off -" Here he stopped, for I was feeling instinctively for the other boot...