Word: big
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reclined or squatted several individuals simply attired in a short strip of linen cloth. Opposite the entrance hung a large picture of what I at first thought a ballet-troupe in distress, but I afterwards found that it was only a group of Dr. Dio Lewis's pupils. A big man, in a choker coming up to his ears, and no cravat, told me, in a hollow voice, to put my valuables in a little drawer and to hang the key around my neck. I had always understood that the Turks were low robbers at home...
...most examples of good writing in verse, but without any of the other and more important characteristics of poetry. They are generally humorous or witty poets; for the long lines afford excellent opportunities for climax, and for that kind of wit which is dependent upon the use of big and high-sounding words in inappropriate connections. It is a melancholy fact that this school, if we may call it such, has found its chief supporters at Harvard. In marked contrast to it, is the school of the wild, the metaphysical, the intensely poetical poets, who commune with their shape-teeming...
...Here's richness! here's oiliness!"-"O, some of these Unitarian Radicals are noble liars."-"The Rev. Mr. Bartol can be dogmatic as any mighty fierce little lamb."-"Was Jesus a sneak?"-"Now, dear sir, don't measure Jesus by your twelve-inch rule."-"O my! O my! you big fool!" In another part of the paper it is stated that the Madisonensis seeks occasionally to remove blemishes by kind and wholesome criticism. One would think...
...theme, "When the College is merged into the University," etc., expresses serious objections to class feeling because the outside world, "hard, cold, and avaricious, recognizes no such sentimentalities." What then? Must we make our little college world "hard, cold, and avaricious," too? If such is the character of the big world, let us have the two realms as different as possible. It is very well to sneer at the "romance" and "sentiment" of class feeling, but, there is very little danger of a Harvard boy's mind being filled with too much of these notions, which, after...
...Magenta, which, as might be expected from its patrician descent, has never 'squalled' since it came into being, or showed any traces of infant depravity in attempting to scratch its big brother, has already gotten its legs and become playful. It has begun to poke sticks through the fence at its neighbors and natural playmates, the Courant and Record. Sweet infant prodigy, we warn you that it is not yet near enough to the millennium to make it at all safe for children, weaned or unweaned, to pursue their little games near the domicile of the asp." - Yale...