Word: beholding
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...playing of the university foot ball man had yesterday a business-like air quite gratifying to behold and the men seem gradually to be shaking themselves into their places. Kent did some very fine kicking but was slow in rushing. Adams, Holden and Lattamore made good rushes which received much attention...
...Portland paper contains the following anecdote concerning a Harvard professor: "John Quincy Adams was an advocate of early rising. Professor Greenleaf, of the Harvard Law School, was not. One day the ex-president attended lecture, and fell asleep. The professor pointed to him and addressed the class, 'Young gentlemen, behold the effect of early rising.' It is a reminiscence of one of the students...
...through infinite vistas behold...
AUBURNDALE, Feb. 1, 1882. February has appeared in wintry splendor, and from our seat on the hill-top we look out upon our pretty village, up to its knees in snow, in real old-fashioned New England style, and beautiful to behold are the dazzling levels and fantastic drifts under the deep blue sky. But in the busy round of work we have scarcely time to watch nature's doings, and only when she flings a glorious day like this in our very faces do we stop to wonder and admire. Just now we have on the tapis a course...
...When I behold the shadow of death...