Word: summer
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Death did indeed claim two victims from the spectators of last summer's race; and people whose information about the calamity was gained at second hand, and was entirely erroneous, did not scruple to offer public censure of the managers for their assumed remissness, - one writer even venturing to brand them as "criminals." This sort of talk, no matter how absurdly unjust, is not pleasant to those against whom it is uttered, for no one likes to be told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless...
...conversely. As none of us have ever passed our summer vacations at the North Pole, shall we enjoy having days twenty-four hours long and no nights? Our morning naps will be impossible...
...HAVE always liked the Professor; and I was therefore pleased, when, during the past summer, I happened to meet him at a certain well-known boarding-place in Sandwich, at the very foot of Whiteface, with Kiarsarge and Cho-corua to the east, and Passaconaway north-west ward. I enjoyed a great many rambles in his company, especially the one week that there were no young people there except myself, when he took pity on my loneliness; and one day in particular I remember for the strange story he told me. We had started early in the morning...
...handsome man. His daughter Bertha did not at all resemble him; yet she was a very pretty girl, though hers was not a face that expressed much piquancy or force of character. We soon became acquainted with each other in the easy, friendly way that the intercourse of a summer hotel is wont to bring about, and I began to like her very well indeed; and soon found that, if she were not a wonderfully bright woman, she was really a charming girl...
...price of board per week for November in Memorial Hall has been $4.29. The following is an analysis of that amount: provisions, $2.95; service, 68 1/2; coal, .10; water, .01; gas, .08; breakage, .04; interest, .12; reduction of debt, .06; summer repairs, .06 1/2; allowances for Sunday absence, .09; miscellaneous, .02; head money...