Word: bade
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...clasped his dark-browed bride, and bade her trust
...appeared, on investigation, that one of the girls in that entry had been frightened out of her wits at seeing the ghost of an old professor who used to occupy her room twenty or thirty years ago. According to her story, he scowled at her fearfully, and gruffly bade her vacate immediately, and no longer let his room be desecrated by a female presence. Tradition makes spirits quite common around Cambridge, and the Professor at the Breakfast Table, you know, mentions having seen the devil's footsteps here in his youth. I have often fancied that certain black streaks...