Word: confessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vigorous crusade has been set on foot lately, against that outgrowth of young Americanism, "slang," which has crept even into busy Lasell, and, strange to say, has seemed to find congenial soil, for it has flourished, as ill weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with...
...calls for the auditor's report, another for the bursar's; one asks for an expert, and another wants new directors. One writer tells us that, as we had had so much about Memorial, we need not insert his communication unless we wanted to. To this man we must confess ourselves infinitely obliged; really, we had never thought of such a thing as inserting his article-in the waste-basket until we received his kind permission. But this is not the worst; while we are torn by dissensions at home, foreign enemies take arms against us. Every mail brings...
...angry with myself," said Yung, "because I did not ask your name; and yet I wondered that I had so far overcome my natural diffidence as to confess my love. But all my diffidence seems to leave me when...
...died thro' me . . . I will confess. My lord...
...easy-chair - the only chair which I never offer to a stranger - with a mingled sensation of relief and anxiety. To be sure, I had looked over a large number of stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from mind, there still remained the question of the cut, which I had promised...