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Word: thoughtful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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...they own. They are one of the drawbacks of student life, but we must submit to them as to so many other extortions. It is with a view to making this submission easy that I offer the following plan. It is the joint production of myself and chum. We thought it carefully out in accordance with the canons of taxation. It is arranged, you will notice, so that

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A CURIOSITY IN LITERATURE. | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...times past (though, of course, there is no such thing now) there have been many students here, with generous hearts and long purses, who have bought everything they thought they wanted without asking the price, and have given to every beggar that called, simply to get rid of them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARITY. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...Saxon origin, three and a half was Western slang, while but one and a half per cent was Latin or Greek! He was proclaimed the people's poet, and, for a time, all went well: but he had climbed too high to keep his position; it began to be thought that Homer was, after all, not likely to be rivalled by Joaquin Miller, and that Shakespeare was a better poet, even if he did use longer words. Socially, too, he was no longer successful; he was hardly conventional enough, even for a poet. But worse than all, he spoke condescendingly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POPULAR POETS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...without seeming thought or care...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

...thought I feel, but cannot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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