Word: sing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Pretty far gone, is n't he? He is spending a small fortune on expressage and postage-stamps, and every day gives me a little treat of this sort. Some of the most sublime poets have sung of the lover's woes; I think some one had better sing of the woes of the lover's intimate friend...
...Will any one list if I sing...
...others. He is doomed to sing...
...regular autocrat where I live. My room is heated by furnace; a bath-room is so handy that I rarely use it; I do not have to go to prayers; not a soul comes to see me; everything is kept in the best order; I can sing myself hoarse without disturbing any one; there is n't a proctor within hailing distance. I can sit here all day wrapped in that absolute quiet which is so essential to the production of the best lies. But I have society - plenty of it - when I feel sociable. I am sorry...
...good of the Athenians; but the Black Prince waited upon King John at table. And I, if I had been victorious in my last encounter with my old enemies, might now play the Black Prince to the Examination System's King John. As it is - but who likes to sing of defeat...