Word: garret
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suspended. Prayers and recitations will be cut, summonses and warnings will be issued. Somebody will get into trouble with municipal authorities just as a streak of gray is beginning to appear on the eastern horizon; and somebody may be seen, Thiers-like, at the same hour, in a solitary garret, grinding, ever grinding. Somebody will have ambitious plans for taking honors in history, philosophy, or mathematics, and will, in three months, perhaps be forced to leave these historic shades "for neglect of regular college duties." Somebody, perhaps, announcing no elaborate plans to the world, will do solid, sustained, faithful work...
...earned dollar is spent in dress and a praiseworthy attempt to make herself comely and fascinating; she emerges from her room as a butterfly from its unpretending chrysalis, and hardly any one could imagine the plump little shop-girl that serves him so deftly ever came down from such garret-like apartments, and trudges her way to the more frequented and busy streets...
Groping the garret's narrow window nigh...
Long time neglected in a garret...