Word: blue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...must be remembered that much additional work is entailed in the preparation of work, that the marking system and the examination system as at present used require much extra labor, and that if the instructor has a taste for "one-hours" he may have five or six hundred blue books to examine every year. Some have more than this...
...BLUE, wistful eyes, and hair...
...smooth face, and age anywhere from forty-five to sixty? No, you did n't see him? Well, he looked every inch (and he is some seventy-seven inches high) exactly what he is, the leading deacon of the Smithfield Centre Orthodox Church; one of the bluest of the blue, and a most unrelenting enemy of card-playing, horse-racing, dancing, and the theatre. I trembled as I saw him looming in the distance; my heart sank down to my boots, and I felt as if the last day had come. "Na-than-i-el," he said, in slow, measured...
...folded west; her blue skies fall...
...found a small particle of knowledge acquired before the subject came to college; the present tense of the verb video and the multiplication-table were all that could be distinguished. The Senior's dress was very elegant, and is now in the Morgue awaiting identification. It consists of tight blue trousers, a waistcoat with red spots, and a neatly cut jacket marked "Poole and Co., makers, London." If you recognize any acquaintance of yours by this, let me know, and I will inform the police...