Word: within
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...shrouded within a cloudy pall...
...chum in subscribing for the latest scientific work by Cowan, and paying for it out of the charity-fund. I earnestly remonstrated, telling him I thought Mr. B -, the agent, was rather a fine-appearing mendicant. I remembered then that my chum had been purchasing quite a library within a few weeks. He promised better things, but after that I was suspicious, and when on careful investigation I discovered that my chum had spent in a certain week $5.48 in penny-ante, beer at Carl's, and a subscription to the Cricket Club, and that in the same week just...
...Boston from a town in the western part of the State, taking a week for the journey. The bracing oxygen of a crisp morning in winter, or the balmy air of the better days of spring, is a strong argument in favor of walking even in preference to exercise within the walls of a gymnasium, where ventilation, especially in cold weather, is difficult. In fact, exercise within doors has always to contend with a disadvantage, and they make a strong point against dancing who urge that it is usually indulged in under the unfavorable circumstances of close, heated rooms...
...present seems to be a very favorable time for the formation here of new modes of recreation and improvement, and for reviving those which have existed in the past, as well as for imparting a new impulse to those already in existence. Within the past year cricket and football have been rescued from their seeming oblivion, and have taken their places beside our staples, baseball and boating. In a past number of the Advocate a club for conversation in German was proposed, and one was almost immediately formed. Another Advocate presents a plea for more whist-playing, and portrays...
That I do long within mine arms to fold...