Word: shopping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...kept trousers and coats in his shop ready-made...
...over here and copy these very snobs in loud clothes and detestable habits? Naturally enough, they don't take our nicest people for models; just as we who may not know any first class Parisians, form our opinions of the French nation from what we see of "cabbies" and shop-girls. You see I am trying not to be prejudiced either against you Yankees or for us. I send by this post some Oxford newspapers that may interest you, and remain...
...wanted to, I might have kept secret a good many things I learned in England. They tried down at Cambridge to build an eight at Blakie's shop, but Blakie was not equal to the job, and his boat cracked from stem to stern while the crew was in practice. I might have kept the secret in New Haven if I wished, as Keart could have built us, and can build, a good cedar eight. But what is the use of being selfish? What I have done has improved boating, and I am glad...
...present whereabouts of the departed worthy, all that can be said is that he is reposing in the shop of the manufacturer. The placing of this window in the Dining Hall was merely an experiment, and as the window did not meet the hopes of the graduates who intended to give it to the University, as regards either its artistic worth or its usefulness, it was sent back to the makers in New York...
...very pleasant time, and I was gaining great renown as a chemist, when I discovered that the sulphuric-acid bottle was empty, and that before I went any further I must have it filled. I left Nell in my room, and hastened down town to an apothecary shop. I had to carry back not only the acid, but also a large bundle, so I carelessly thrust the bottle, lightly corked, into my pocket...