Word: browed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other features of the game which caused considerable comment were the gentlemanly rebuke given by an '86 player to one of his opponents, and the numerous attempts of the '86 captain to brow-beat the referee, attempts which happily did not succeed. The vigorous remarks of the '86 captain to his opponents on the subject of closing their conversation were highly edifying, considering the fact that the former was not particularly noticeable for his own reticence in various subjects connected with the contest. Let us hope that in the coming game with '88 the team will act a little more...
...annual grist of A. B.'s. The clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock law," - each...
...Lasellia Club. The former is very, very secret. The gallant visitor, if his hostess chance to belong to the S. D., of course interprets the letters as the initials for "Seraphic Daisies," but if the hostess be one of the Lasellia Club, he then wrinkles his brow and suggests, "Slighted Damsels...
...hand so that the arm crosses the face diagonally. The hand is protected by a basket hilt of iron, the arm and chest by impenetrable coverings. The left hand is held behind the back. There are only four or five cuts allowed, which, if successful, inflict wounds on the brow, cheek, or chin. The only really dangerous cut is a straight, down ward stroke on the head, which may open the skull but is easily guarded. The favorite stroke is performed by a quick, dexterous turn of the wrist, and inflicts a scratch in the neck under the chin...
According to the Lancet, "brain tension is not a proof of strength but of weakness. The knit brow, straining eyes, and fixed attention of the scholar are not tokens of power, but of effort. The intellectual man with a strong mind does his brain work easily. Tension is friction, and the moment the toil of a growing brain becomes laborious it should cease. We are, unfortunately, so accustomed to see brain work done with effort that we have come to associate effort with work, and to regard tension as something tolerable, if not natural. As a matter of fact...