Word: confession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...them, - and a very little bag, containing his toothbrush. He will walk through the train twice. He knows every one will see that he is a collegian; but he forgets that every one will see what is equally obvious, - that he is a Freshman. We pardon him, for we confess to a slight thrill of pride when first a mucker called out after us, "Hi! look at the Harvard...
...massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion," the writer may possibly know what he means, but I confess I have not the least idea...
What thoughts were Jack's I do not know. I was filled with wonder and pity for the ignorance of the poor man ; and I confess I had visions of taking him to the top of Bunker Hill Monument that dark night, or over to South Boston. But as the car stopped, I was waked from my revery by Jack's whispering...
...lovely Chloe I confess...
...unrestrained by any vulgar laws of proportion. After all, why should not a Yale man, if he likes, have a head three times as long as his body, or a leg about the size of his little finger? Far be it from us to object, although we must confess that to our uneducated mind an ordinary man is a more pleasing object than a being who, in addition to the pleasing peculiarities above-mentioned, has a parallelogram for a body, a square for a head, straight lines for limbs, and dots for features; but we confess that this...