Word: watering
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...family physician was out of town, she had called me. I felt of the servant's pulse, and counted 323 beats per minute. Then, taking from my pocket a little vial of homoeopathic pills which I chanced to have, I dissolved one in a tumblerful of water, and told her to take a teaspoonful every three hours. While preparing the decoction I innocently asked how Miss Rosalie was this afternoon. "Rosalie who?" replied the lady, "there is no one of that name here." I begged her pardon, explaining that I was very absentminded, and was thinking of another patient...
...told that he ought to be a jail-bird, even when his self-appointed judge is a person ill-informed and powerless. Hence I beg leave to ask such collegians at Cambridge as think it wise to have the historic name of "Harvard" publicly championed upon the water by her youngest and greenest representatives, "Is it reasonable to expect that the New London managers, after receiving this abuse for an accident for which they were perfectly blameless, should take upon their shoulders the burden of providing for Freshmen crews, whose presence upon the Thames would add another element...
...cried, pointing to a little sail-boat far out on the water, gliding through the moon-light; 'if you pity me - if you love me, go there!' Then she vanished...
...figures in the stern, a man and a woman. They were talking excitedly; disputing, it seemed. The woman rose to her feet with a scornful little laugh; and then - horrible to think of - her companion gave her a sudden push, and she fell over the side into the water. Overcome with terror as I was, I staggered forward, and felt the cold waves about my feet; and so woke up, and found myself indeed standing half in water on the lonely, moonlit beach...
...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...