Word: appearance
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first part of the Philological Society's dictionary of the English language, which has been in preparation for twenty years, will appear on the 29th inst. The text is from "A" to "Ant." The period which will be consumed in the completion of the whole work will probably be twenty years more...
...green caps according to their rank. The different classes never mingle with one another, and it is considered an insult if a red-capped student addresses a blue cap. Each color has its corner in the dueling room, and here the students smoke and drink until the combatants appear. The duelists are dressed and armed in an adjoining room in the following fashion: All the body is protected with thick leather plastrons, and heavy gauntlets cover the hands and arms. Their eyes and nose are protected by gauze goggles so that no slip of the sword can injure them...
...that I often came in contact with him. There were a few of the professors at whose homes he was always welcome and he regularly, at that time, dined with us on Sundays. He would breakfast and dine early with others, but at 6 o'clock he would appear at our house for his second Sunday dinner. In the evenings when worked up he was fond of relating how the Turks decapitated condemned prisoners. Standing in the middle of the room with his bright eyes flashing fire he would make with his hands each of the peculiar motions after...
...they were written in Latin or translated into English, were almost unknown to him, as he never learned German so as to read it with any facility. But much which others learned with toil seemed to come to him by intuition, and many things in his books which might appear to be borrowed from others are really original with him. He was as eccentric in his teaching as in everything else that he did. He had much of the Socratic way of asking questions to show a pupil his ignorance, and then leaving him to help himself as best...
...transition. But we also think that our Yale friends are in themselves partly to blame. The News, at least, is frequently guilty of great exaggeration, and of occasional misstatements, and if these are allowed to happen at home, they cannot find much fault if deceptive reports of their doings appear in the outside press...