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Word: suggests (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Meet Freshman at station. Observe foreign-looking man in sombrero. Freshman suggests spy. We suggest brakeman. Take compartment car. Freshman, ourself, and mysterious stranger, locked in together, go madly rushing through the night. Have observed stranger handing papers, doubtless important, to villanous-looking man in station. Certainly not brakeman, possibly spy. Do not have a good night's rest. Stranger refuses a pull at our flask. Suspicious...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...know how near good skating is to be found I think more of us would improve the opportunity; for what is much pleasanter, after all, than skating (not alone) by moonlight when the stars are reflected in the ice at our feet and the distant house-lights suggest warm fires and a good supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE COMING SEASON. | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

...Wake early, but not bright. Drizzling rain. Suggest to Freshman that we take it easy. Freshman acquiesces with ill-concealed delight. Says he has rich uncle (who dotes on him) living three miles ahead. Time to uncle's gate, two hours. Servant won't let us in; has orders to keep out tramps. Freshman implores and raves, but with no avail. Finally sends in pocket-Bible in lieu of card, and is admitted. Uncle cordial; cousins, Sophs at Vassar. Welcome breakfast. Rain increases; have to spend the day. Luncheon. Dinner. Bezique and forfeits in the sitting-room. Rain ceases. Cousins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARRY, COME UP! | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

Buying up all the books of a kind within reach and then selling them at an advanced price, a trick with which many of us are unpleasantly familiar, is a very neat plan for increasing the profits at first, but, we venture to suggest, may not pay in the long...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOOKS AND BOOKSELLERS. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

...above heading may suggest to many of the readers of the Magenta the possible supply of what we believe to have been a long-felt need. The opportunities for the conversational practice of French are so very limited that it is possible for even a good fluency in speech to become much impaired during a four years' residence in college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRENCH CLUB. | 10/10/1873 | See Source »

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