Word: compliment
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past neglect be not eagerly seized. Let every one that can possibly do so, sign their names at Bartlett's at once, and let nothing but the most pressing considerations deter any one from being present on Friday night at Young's to give the view a deserved compliment, and to make the dinner in every way a success...
...Evarts. "I am confirmed," he said, "in an opinion which, as a Yale man, I early formed in regard to Harvard - that there was no college in the country whose graduates improved so much after leaving college. We have a right to be proud of Yale, since the great compliment which Lord Bacon, in a familiar passage, prophetically paid us. Lord Bacon, as you all know, says: 'Eating makes the full man, drinking the ready man, but to have been educated at Yale College, a wise man.' Now, at Cambridge, they attempt the impossible. At Yale they...
...election of Mr. Lowell as president of the association was, in our opinion, a well-deserved compliment to the great interest Harvard has shown in the inter-collegiate meetings for the past few years, and will be received with great satisfaction by the entire college...
...imagine such a fitting drink for fairies as lemonade?) while above this domain of fays hung the Yale crew's shell, which "looked down upon the people below, recalling the time when it had looked upon eelgrass and had felt sadder." Who could have thought of such a brilliant compliment to the young ladies of New Haven? Who would have thought they reminded one of "eel-grass...
...Life, Progress says: "Those interested in the paper are, I understand, Harvard graduates, and it must be said that Life has the look of college journalism about it," - which may be taken as a compliment to college journalism or otherwise, as you choose...