Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mists, - all blank and bare...
...half of the Senior Class has received blank books, in which autobiographies of its members are to be written in the form of answers to a set of printed questions sent out by the Class Secretary. The books will then be handed over to the other half of the Class, to receive their quota. Such, in theory, is the formation of the Class Book; in practice, however, it is to be feared that many of the lives will be carelessly written, many of the questions answered slightingly, or not at all. This was the case in previous years; one gentleman...
FRESHMAN engaged in drawing up the little preliminary autobiography required at Dean's office, gets along nicely until he comes to "name of father," which he leaves blank. Sardonic Harris suggests, "T is a wise child...
SHAKESPEARE.POETS have sung the praises of sleep as the restorer of strength to man's wearied frame, probably agreeing with Socrates, that a dreamless night is the pleasantest, and hence neglecting to celebrate the pleasures of sleep as well. These are not to be found in blank oblivion, nor in the incongruous, unreal, and half-recollected shadows of the hours of darkness, but in the hours of early morning. Then, like the light of the dawn going before the full radiance of the sun, the self-consciousness of each human mind precedes the full resumption of the sceptre over...
...first-class newspaper, with all the modern improvements, will also have a blank for fashionable weddings, just as convenient in its way as the marriage service, and with little but names to be supplied. Here different papers vary a little from each other; but the form in use by one of our prominent journals will serve very well as an example...