Word: born
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pauses in a sentence, as if the young speakers felt the need of a certain start before making an emphasis, on the reculer pour mieux sauter principle. The lack of by-play was striking, albeit natural, and almost all the participants fell into the error, common to all American -born amateurs, of looking preternaturally solemn-as if the destinies of the stellar system weighed upon their shoulder-when they had nothing to say. Yet there was no sign of carelessness; every movement and position seem to have been well studied out beforehand. The thing that most detracted from the effectiveness...
...Stephen Cleveland, one of President Cleveland's ancestors, was born in Cambridge, and graduated from Harvard...
...wealth, gaiety, are what we usually see. But in the old quarters of the city are dark, crooked streets and dens of shamelessness and crime. There are quarters over which Ignorance and Vice brood like an eternal nightmare. Stunted and distorted human beings grovel in congenial ignominy; children are born in this pestilential atmosphere, are born and grow up, are asphyxiated, and die; and the filthy wheel of the city's life turns round and round. And whither does the human offal from these noisome streets on the water-front go? What becomes of the vilest of their vile...
against being the sport and plaything of every accident and passion, is not the petulant fretting of a born slave, but the noble lamentation of a captive king...
...great blessing to be born surrounded by a natural horizon. The Old Gambrel-roofed House could not boast an unbroken ring of natural objects encircling it. Northerly it looked upon its own outbuildings and some unpretending two-story house which had been its neighbors for a century or more. To the south of it the square brick dormitories and the befriend hall of the university helped to shut out the distant view. But the west windows gave a broad outlook across the common, beyond which the historical "Washington elm" and two companions in line with it spread their leaves...