Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...much object to him, because he uses up the time. The man who is most incomprehensible to me is he who laughs, -laughs at all the instructor says, all that he says himself, and all that I say. How he can so break decorum as to appear enthusiastic about anything, I cannot understand; it is so unfashionable...
CALYPSO'S island home. The billows break With silvery murmur on the coral beach...
...discuss; we merely wish to suggest a means whereby extensive repairs could be made and to every student's advantage. We claim that it is the duty of the Corporation to provide better means of egress from our dormitories in case of fire. Were a first class fire to break out to-morrow with great loss of life and property, every one would be clamorous for better protection, or, to use a homely proverb, the barn would be locked after the home was stolen. There is nothing in the nature of things why we are not just as liable...
There was a break-down in Massachusetts Hall during the afternoon, and I heard there would be a Stag Dance at midnight; but, being very tired, I hurried home, and determined to go out next week to see the rooms; so soon as I have been, I will write you, and until then, with love...
...good deal to say, and had plenty of time to say it without interruption; but now, although we are just as talkative as our ancestors, we don't reel off our speech all at once, for, if we did, we should be called bores; but we break it up into short sentences, and our conversation becomes spicy. And so the popular novelist does n't allow his characters' tongues to run away with them, but gives his pages an interesting look by sprinkling over them a profusion of quotation-marks. The average reader, on opening a new book, is always...