Word: attacks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...battle like the war-horse, and he demandeth of the maiden whether she be yet free from the bonds of the school-mistress, and lo, the maiden is abashed, and the young man rejoiceth, and shouteth "Ha! ha!" and verily the day feels warmer, and he followeth up the attack with a demand to know the name of her instructress in Sunday School, and if this be the first time that she hath disported herself in the giddy dance at the house of one that is known unto her; and lo, the scoffs of the maiden are as a broken...
OWING to an attack of insomnia, Professor Bartlett has been obliged to relinquish his sections a week before the vacation...
...late the Crimson seems to have furnished an object of attack to all the disputants of the University. Now we are perfectly willing to furnish occupation for these gentlemen, but we would like them to understand one thing which at present does not seem to be comprehended by them, - that is, that the Crimson board is not responsible for the sentiments expressed in the correspondence column. As long as a letter is decent, no matter whether the board concurs in the sentiments of the writer or not, it will be published. The editorials only are the expressions of the opinions...
...intend to enter the lists with an attack on co-education. That subject has been discussed till every one is weary of the subject, but we do believe that our own Alma Mater should remain true to her principles, and we regret deeply to see her even by slow degrees abandon her position by the side of Yale, Columbia, and Princeton, for a new one with Cornell, Oberlin, and Boston University...
...receive us in their gloomy embrace. Did he not remember the blow, did he not remember Madelon? He shivered as a long howl rang like music in my ears, and murmured to himself that a cross-bow would not have been amiss; but still the wolves would seldom attack two, and if they did, a serf more or less made little difference, and while they were busy with me he could escape. But the change was coming, I felt it burning within me; and he started as he looked at my eyes, which I felt were slowly gaining the fiendish...