Word: bayed
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...only cousin I've got that I care a bunch of cigarettes for, but she's nice as she can be, if I do say it." So my chum, Dick Roberts, expressed himself to me as we stood looking into the dancing parlor of the Bay View House of an evening last July. I had just arrived on the evening coach, and was gathering my first impressions of the place and people...
...morning, about a month after my arrival, we - that is, Amy and I - were rowing down the bay together in the face of a fresh breeze, that, as we neared the harbor's mouth, was beating the waves harder and harder against our boat. I can't for the life of me say just how it happened, but I believe she quoted something to the effect that troubles were billows on life's ocean; when I proposed that we buffet them in company, and made as big a fool of myself as such circumstances require, promising eternal devotion, and expressing...
...came to my senses more and more, I realized that it was not upon the Styx's bank that my boat was beating, but against the little pier in front of the Bay View House. So I got ashore as best I could, and, feeling as if an entire planetary system was whirling within my brain, I stumbled up to the hotel, and, in a sort of daze, got to my room and fell asleep at once...
Sweep the tide across the bay...
...margin of the bay...