Word: beare
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...places with an enthusiasm quite unexpected, and the deceptive cleverness with which those two handsome females - Mrs. Figsby and Caroline - were "constructed," may in part account for it. The Caroline who, at Exeter, so gracefully received her bouquet in the Farce, was hardly recognized, we fancy, as the black bear who received a cabbage in the burlesque. The puns and ridiculous situations that were scattered so profusely through the burlesque relieved the audience of all their accumulated cares, and came very near transforming some middle-aged Harvard men back into undergraduates again...
...this reason that I have never before obtruded upon you my opinions in regard to this subject. But if a confession of sentiment is to be considered a confession of folly, why then it behooves every true lover of sentiment boldly to acknowledge himself such, and bear up as he may against the abuse of Mr. Bounderby, the facts of Mr. Gradgrind, or the more delicate sarcasm of less fictitious persons...
...tell the tale; though hard to bear...
...calm; I bear...
...Amherst Student complains of the excellent reputation as "models of morality" which Amherst students bear, on the ground that it is undeserved by them and only the inevitable result of their Faculty's severity. We admire modesty, and assure Amherst that we feel...