Search Details

Word: headed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...study very much, but still I led a pretty steady life. One night in the middle of October, about ten o'clock, there were four fellows in my room, and we were all laughing loudly over some bon-mots, when a knock was heard, and in came a head, which opened its mouth and gravely said, 'Gentlemen, it is after nine o'clock, and you are keeping me awake; I must therefore warn you to make less noise,' and then disappeared. 'It's your proctor,' yelled the company, - we broke up in disgust. A short time afterwards, I was thoughtless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "OFT IN THE STILLY NIGHT." | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...Batter, Junior, respectfully petitions to be excused from morning prayers, as, on account of neuralgic headache, be cannot retire before one A. M., and early rising causes a swimming sensation in the head, followed by nausea." Granted. The poor fellow has my sympathy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PETITIONS. | 12/6/1878 | See Source »

...daisy shook her head...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Fable. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...visitors were gone; but the Freshman still sat over the fire, with his head bowed upon his hands. How had his cherished ideal been overthrown by this revelation! His fair picture of college life had faded; and in its place was a gaudy thing, like one of those strange works of Turner, hideous and unreal. When will the Freshman be himself again? Perhaps in four years, - perhaps to-morrow. Until then we shall know him by his feigned face and mock-heroic air: for we, too, have all seen Humbug; and many of us, like the Freshman, have taken...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN'S VISITORS. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...said, "Guide be blowed!" clapped my hat on my head, and fled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A ROMANCE IN THE LIBRARY. | 10/11/1878 | See Source »