Word: brained
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hotels and restaurants. We would suggest a comparison of these to the stomach; it is certainly just as appropriate as a comparison of the cemeteries to bones, which is made farther on. Mr. King gets more and more mixed up in his metaphors as he proceeds. The lungs, mind, brain, tongue, soul, heart, pulse, and bones are made to do duty, and by hook or by crook something is scared up to which each of them is compared. But finally the theatres and insurance offices present too many difficulties, and the attempt to continue the metaphor is given...
...Four deaths occurred in 1877-78 among the students resident in Cambridge, - three in the College and one in the Scientific School. Two died of brain disease, one of pneumonia, and one of anaemia. In no one of the cases could the fatal disease be attributed to any exposure or over-exertion incident to student life or to residence in Cambridge. The general healthiness of the University dormitories is remarkable. There has been no epidemic therein of fever, diphtheria, dysentery, or any zymotic disease for many years, and malaria (except in imported cases) is unknown...
...classics or philosophy for amusement; and an infinite number of sets which have no distinguishing characteristics at all, composed of men whom fellowship at school or mere chance has thrown together, and who are not qualified for any of the three main cliques, either in manners, muscle, or brain. Each of these many sets looks down on all the others, or affects to; and the result is, not the utmost good feeling...
...with thy heart and brain, then thou 'It discern...
Read with thy heart and brain, then, read and know...