Word: countering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time. Besides, everybody in the store was looking the other way, apparently listening to Captain Peregrine Batt, who, to judge from his gestures, was narrating a story of breathless interest Nahum Metcalf, the storekeeper, had forgotten his only customer in the interest of the recital, and leaned over the counter as far as his long, thin form would allow; and the customer himself, resting against a barrel, forgot about Indian meal and sugar, and looked at the speaker. Presently, Captain Peregrine ended, and the customer was duly served; and then it was that this same customer, opening the outer door...
...staggered off, and she was left alone on the walk in a daze. She gazed in at the window of the store, her eyes riveted on a pile of porous-plasters. Did she think to heal her wounded heart? Slowly she entered the store, laid five cents on the counter, and said in a voice full of suppressed emotion...
...will have no difficulty in seeing it." "It is a curious fact," however, that men don't seem to see it. Let a student make a jolly night of it, and on his way home levy a loan on a signboard, and all the patrons of the free lunch counter will demand to be led to the charge. ... While every man has a right to practise total abstinence if he wishes, he has no right to impose it upon another man who is cognizant of his ability to use wine with moderation. This principle holds with man everywhere, in college...
...officially known as the Borsair, a term whose derivation the Philological Society have not yet determined. Some twenty years ago he headed an insurrection of Janitors, or Janissaries, - there is an historical doubt. They were temporarily successful; but they enacted such an oppressive system of legislation that a counter-revolution was started, and on its success the Janissaries were banished and the Borsair imprisoned for life...
Room in Ecstasy Hall. A free-lunch counter furnished with cigars and wine; four or five girls and two or three men in easy-chairs, smoking and drinking; MISS CARBUNCLE, Instructress, at a desk...