Word: countering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hancock this time who was left, but myself. I was not running for President, though, but only for one of those giddy girls again. It was in a stationer's shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop...
...well enough; professors of course had a right to dispose of their leisure in giving additional instruction, and nothing was thought of the matter. So it was when the Annex was established. At first all was a depth of mystery, and save for an occasional meeting at the notebook counter, or sundry jests in the College journals, no one would have believed that such a thing as the Annex existed...
AFTER several statements and counter-statements, it is at last announced that the procession will take place "positively" next Monday night...
There at the counter stood, oh, what...
...obtained through the glass doors or from the exhibition room above. Almost every visitor tramps through the reading-room, but searcely one in ten ascends to the exhibition room, where the curiosities of the Library are displayed to any wishing to see them. Visitors are not admitted behind the counter of a banking-house to gaze over the shoulders of the busy clerks; why should they be admitted into our counting-house, to disturb us by their stares and whispered comments...