Word: colds
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...knew it would be a bill. Breakage at last dinner, $5." Lying down again on the sofa, I try to think of my thoughts. "Three days before that examination, and haven't opened a book, - that's refreshing. What can keep chum so long? Oh, that this cold snap hadn't snapped the neck off all my bottles of Apollinaris Water! Forensic due Wednesday, and haven't written a word yet. What a fool I am! How I wish, instead of spending the evening with that English-American Pressed-coat Poole, I had come home and ground! I wonder what...
Thus, arm in arm, they hurried forward. The lamps were being lighted; and it was growing very cold and windy...
...with an ill-hidden smile of scorn, replied, "Don't register at all." "Nay, but I must," the hero replied. "Then sit upon that step," said Sloth, "and wait." So Lighthead waited, and the noon past and evening came - but no one else. Then he, feeling the day was cold, got up and departed. That night he thought much of his home, and wept...
SECOND EXTRACT.Where I next called the young lady was not at home, so I left my card with "What do you think of an early marriage?" written on it. She must have misunderstood me, for her reply was cold and formal, and not at all to the point [query, what...
...cold in the Yard this morning, that I put on my cap in going to recitations, which is contrary to rule. M., a Junior, saw me and threatened to tell my master, F., who would have flogged me soundly; but I bought M. off by giving him a shilling...