Word: air
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...air is heavy with incense...
...hold a dozen; and he enforced his remarks with a dig of his elbow into my ribs which recalled to me that Colney was in the drift above, and that this might be a precaution. So I made no further opposition, and we were soon swinging in mid air, with the growing spot of sky above, the black abyss below and the rough, damp walls around, just out of our reach...
Recitative and Air (Meister Singer) Wagner...
...Westerner to Boston girl: "Why, Miss X., what is that air they are playing now?" Miss X. - "It seems familiar. (Brightly) Yes, do you know, it is called Yankee Doodle...
...view of Harvard students. He objects to the popular idea that Harvard students are either boating men, base-ball players or "howling swells," and characterizes the representative Harvard man as "simply a quiet, studious young man, only to be distinguished from other well dressed young men by a certain air of intellectualism and that appearance of lofty disdain which characterizes students everywhere. It is an error to suppose that more than a very few indeed of the Harvard students are intemperate or licentious The Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much...