Word: answering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pervade all. One woman with a face like a baked apple called in the greatest despair, unceasingly, "Miss Flynn, O Miss Flynn !" Presently she burst into tears, and propounded two questions to her neighbors in general, the first relative to a mother's feelings, and, failing to receive an answer, the next whether any one had anything about them to keep a poor widow from fainting. It transpired shortly after that Miss Flynn, affected by the solemnity of the day, had given free license to a craving appetite; and, having inadvertently fallen asleep, had been propped up against a neighboring...
...most cases at least, a much greater. If, in connection with this, the instructor would give lectures now and then on matters that seem to him of special importance or of special difficulty, and if he would at the same time expect the students to be prepared to answer questions that he might put to them during the recitation on the ground they had already gone over, making it a point to ask a few questions during each hour, and letting students know that they were marked on their answers, I think that nine tenths of those that now take...
...OSSIP," in the Crimson of December 7, wrote an attack on "self-styled" independence. In an answer to this article we suggested that " Ossip's " independent man was only a straw man, or in case he did exist, that he was a very foolish and ill-mannered creature. We defended real independence, which we said consisted "in fearlessly acting in accordance with the dictates of a manly conscience with absolute disregard to popular opinion," and " in fearlessly speaking whenever there is a principle at issue." In illustration of the second principle we said that when Hollis Holworthy " talked like...
...would cause us equal surprise and pleasure to see a number of the Princetonian in which there was not an elaborate defence of the President and Faculty of Princeton College, in answer to a charge made by some unfortunate New York daily. The last number contains the usual two columns of scorn, directed, this time against the Tribune...
...whether I should ever become so blase in regard to college life. It puzzled me most, however, to find out whether "quite a respectable portion" of the class would really be rather glad than otherwise to take their sheep-skins and walk away. I am not sure of the answer yet, but am still wondering...