Word: brainful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cause of this can be found to lie, not so much in the quantity of work as in the regularity and systematic way in which it is performed. Many high authorities concur in the opinion that an almost unlimited amount of mental work may be done by the brain provided it is performed at regular hours, and proper care is taken of the body...
...Evoluted brain...
...English university men: "When born with good constitutions they make those eupeptic studying-mills, the cast-iron men, the dura ilia, whose powers of performance compare with ours as the steam-hammer with the music-box-Cokes, Mansfields, Seldens and Bentleys; and when it happens that a superior brain puts a rider on this admirable horse, we obtain those masters of the world who combine the highest energy in affairs with a supreme culture...
...however, long to wear the willow; she soon turned her batteries on Mnag. His heart, softened by the success of his plans, easily yielded; and he was made happy by the constant companionship of "the only woman he had ever seen who could make use of her approximation to brain." In the general happiness Goe and Bang were not forgotten, for an inexhaustible supply of apples was kept for them in Yung's house...
...evil thought slipt thro' the Queen's mad brain...