Word: beset
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Castle Square singers will take up for the first time Donizetti's thrilling grand opera, "Lucia Di Lammermoor." This opera is founded on Sir Walter Scott's novel "The Bride of Lammermoor," and the scene is laid in Scotland during the seventeenth century. The heroine, Lucy Ashton, is beset by evil throughout the opera, and finally murders her husband and dies. The final scene is the death of her lover, who stabs himself...
Professor Macvane then quoted at some length from the writings of various men of different nationalities on the subject. He showed the many difficulties which will beset the United States commission on account of the great differences in spelling the names of important places and rivers by various authors. All in all, he thought the commissioners would find, when they began to investigate, that they had no easy task...
...professional reformer. He has devoted himself to an unceasing, patient and judicious study of the needs of the School, and he has been enabled thereby to introduce numerous improvements in administration. It shows the breadth of his mind that the multitude of administrative details which have of necessity beset him on all sides, have not blinded him to the higher needs of the School, but that his reforms have given greater simplicity in administration and greater freedom (without license) to the students...
...profession. Littell does not hesitate to say that journalism is not "hospitable," and that it is not the realm of the pioneer or the originator, but he does insist that by certain forms of practice, the undergraduate may fit himself the better to cope with the difficulties which will beset him in his first necessary duties...
Only as we enter into the consciousness of the will of God can we resist the sordid temptations that beset...