Word: rested
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...looked upon him as quite a jewel in an equine way. So when I came eastward, about the first of September, I brought Ceph (Ceph is familiar for Bucephalus) along with me, and we settled down in a little New Hampshire village, with the intention of wearing away the rest of the vacation there. It was one of those delightful little country places, where on the arrival of a stranger all local industries are for the time suspended until the entire community has informed itself to its utter satisfaction regarding the minutiae of said stranger's life, habits, religious belief...
...then went off at a tangent to one of the smaller tables, where I answered the same old questions for the Dean of my faculty, and received a further addition to my store of documents. I was now free to return to my seat and watch the rest of the crowd going through the same ordeal...
...that he must be on the wrong path, he stopped to consider. The girl could not be far from him, that was sure; he therefore rushed to this side and to that, vainly hoping to catch a glimpse of the fair. At last, tired out, he sat down to rest; and then, for the first time, he noticed that day was nearly done. He was frightened, now, for the girl's sake; he shouted, "Tue! Tue! You will be lost! I promise not to touch you; only come here, and let us go home." But the girl did not answer...
...Advocate," published a few years since, and many humorous or sentimental poems that have appeared in our papers since. And we say this in all candor, not in prejudice or undue self-praise. However, there are several very good pieces in the book that go far to redeem the rest...