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Word: blushes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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Their sweet faint blush to the winds that stray...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Harvard Monthly. | 6/16/1886 | See Source »

...that is within the means of the majority of the class, and under the circumstances it is simply disgraceful that no more than twenty names have been signed in the book at Leavitt & Peirce's. Let us hear no more of conduct such as every right-minded student should blush to call his own, but let every man who has not an examination on Saturday, or who is not in a condition of absolute poverty, buy a ticket, go to New Haven, and cheer on the nine to victory and honor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/11/1886 | See Source »

...rise to many evils. The note, however, is one of these and deserves little regard on the face of the earth. Another and perhaps the crying evil of the system is the "syllabi" published in pamphlet form by the Cambridge printers, and issued at prices which would put to blush the projectors of an average edition de luxe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Value of Good Notes. | 1/14/1886 | See Source »

...Anglo Saxon, however, a student who is guilty of this practice, is either a kleptomaniac, and deserves a term in the insane asylum, or a thief, and should be made to feel the hand of the common law. Desirous as we are for subjects for editorials, we can but blush for Harvard when we have to refer again and again to these questionable operations, first in the library, again in Memorial, and again in the gymnasium. It is due college honor at large that no false sense of friendship, or generosity, should prevent a student who knows one of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/21/1885 | See Source »

...then free? She is, it is clear, and no argument can disguise it. She is now mine, and were she to be unfaithful to me, she ought to be pierced with a Corsican poniard." Boswell, had a startling way of putting things. Truly, one is forced to blush for the man. He first seduces a man's wife, and then, because the husband objects to such little attentions, he declares that the poor man, by such objection has used the wife "shockingly ill," and therefore, she is freed from her vows. But unfortunately, true love never runs smooth, even with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: On the Amorous Disposition of Mr. James Boswell. | 3/26/1885 | See Source »

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