Word: broking
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...place in the young and the uninformed. The humorous stories in Punch that relate the inopportune sayings of precocious children have often afforded me amusement, but the blunders that fell from the mouths of those "babes and sucklings" were nothing to the remarks of this prodigy. "Why, mamma," broke out the child in a lull of the conversation, "Mary has set the table with the best china...
...guess that's so," broke in Renardy. "And now, aged phrenologist, were I master of these spacious apartments, I should first entertain you with biscuits and sherry, and then request you to bestow your valuable presence elsewhere. As the matter stands, let me refer you to this gentleman, who has been eagerly waiting till you were at leisure and he could pour into your sympathetic ear something that's on his mind...
...Hollo, old boy," broke in a familiar voice, "I've got back. Lost my latch-key and could n't get into the room. Thought I should probably find you here...
...Brown is in a state of excitement. On Monday and Tuesday there were cane rushes between the Sophomores and Freshmen. President Robinson broke up the second rush and expelled six Sophomores, but refused to suspend the class, as he was requested to do. He also gave warning that any Freshman appearing with a cane or any imitation thereof would be expelled. Expulsion was threatened the Sophomores who should trouble the Freshmen...
Straight down the street they broke...