Word: tells
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look a man in the face without a dollar, board four dollars a week, candles one-half pr. lb., wine and rum which we have quite done with, the one 14s, the other 10s. pr. bottle, and everything in propotion, and continually rising; to what height I can't tell, but I hope they will have a Confounded Fall by and by." This to his "Honour'd Mamma...
...Abbott: Kant's Theory of Ethics; Martial, Paley & Stone's editions; Songs of Harvard, 70 cents; magazines for February; recent importations of Schiller's works in fine bindings and in paper, 5 sets of Schiller's dramatic works; Goethe's work, 18 vols., and Schiller's Maria Stuart, William Tell and Wallenstein, in paper...
...Yesterday we published the first of a series of articles recalling the victories and defeats and hard-won fights of the various notable athletic teams which have represented Fair Harvard on flood and field in bygone days. The compiler of these historical potpourris has many a curious legend to tell, - of how that famous crew of 185 - , or was it 186, - when hard pressed by her mighty opponents on Lake Winnipiseogee, and almost swamped by the mighty sea and threatening waves, succeeded at last in getting upon the crest of a heavy rowller, upon which they easily passed the rival...
...Abbott: Kant's Theory of Ethics; Martial, Paley & Stone's editions; Songs of Harvard, 70 cents; magazines for February; recent importations of Schiller's works in fine bindings and in paper, 5 sets of Schiller's dramatic works; Goethe's work, 18 vols., and Schiller's Maria Stuart, William Tell and Wallenstein, in paper...
...Abbott: Kant's Theory of Ethics; Martial, Paley & Stone's editions; Songs of Harvard, 70 cents; magazines for February; recent importations of Schiller's works in fine bindings and in paper, 5 sets of Schiller's dramatic works; Goethe's work, 18 vols., and Schiller's Maria Stuart, William Tell and Wallenstein, in paper...