Word: mistress
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next day he popped the question, "after sqeezing and kissing her fine hand, while she looked at me with those beautiful black eyes," but, alas, he was refused. His disappointment was very bitter, and in the tumult of his soul, he wrote the following song to his mistress...
Girton College is very pleasantly situated near the university town of Cambridge, England. The buildings occupy two sides of a quadrangle, tastefully laid out into grass-plots, flowerbeds and trim walks. These buildings contain fifty-five suites of rooms for students; suites for the mistress and three resident lecturers; eight lecture rooms, a dining hall, a small chapel, and an isolated hospital suite. There is also in another building, which stands by itself, a laboratory and a gymnasium. The college was founded about fifteen years ago, in a private house, with six students in the catalogue...
...several. The whole tragedy, indeed, may be described, and even explained, as a story of youthful passion. The same critic objects that the balcony is always so high. Usually, however, the balcony is so low that any lover endowed with tolerable agility could vault to the side of his mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry...
...report is going the rounds of the press that Chin Tah Fay, a Chinese student, was turned out of the house in which he boarded because his boarding mistress thought he had a "bad eye." This suspicion proved to have been well founded, for news comes from China that, on his return home, he wantonly murdered his father, and was beheaded...
...Mistress Biddie O'Donnell was the foremost to speak