Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...redness. Another is a young girl, who is dressed in silk and whose dark hair is still coiled neatly, just as those slender, livid fingers last arranged it. She bears no wound, but upon the small, coquettish face is stamped such a look of horror as it might well break a mother's heart to gaze upon. A middle aged man, short, thick-set and resolute looking, has dropped dead in the street, and the gendarmes have brought the nameless body here. He wears a blue blouse, and his cap is still upon his head; his sleeves, rolled up, disclose...
...protruded chin, and now the mud of the river bottom is washing about in the open mouth. Curious fishes touch their cold noses to it and then dart away. It rushes madly by the upper end of the Island of Paris, where the divided waters foam about the stone break-water; then it loiters idly, hour after hour, in the still waters near the shore. It floates under the noonday sun, and sees the hooks and lines of innumerable lazy fishermen and the naked legs of bathers in the floating baths. It floats in the cold moonlight and bobs aimlessly...
...exhortation, it is a prophecy. Yes, it may be said, very good, so long as the future he can forsee is pleasant, and the action he can forecast is noble; but if he thinks he is fated to be miserable, will that not extinguish his hopes, will that not break his spirit? Certainly, I might answer, and he must have a spirit broken already, who would not rather be sobered by truth than tickled by self-deception. Living is like going to the theatre: if the play is good, it is enjoyed all the more for having been previously read...
...Fogg '85, will enter for the "Running High Kick" at the Technology games, and attempt to break the amateur "Hitch and Kick" record, 8 feet 5 inches...
...columns of the CRIMSON, but, half-column article in Saturday's Record surpasses, in poor proofreading, anything that has appeared in college journalism for some time. The article in question contained eighteen errors. If the proof reader on our Boston E. C. continues in this course, he will break the Record...