Word: constantions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first floor is the parlor, and the windows in this apartment are hung with white lace curtains, fitting symbols of that energetic unrest which pervades certain Western houses, for these curtains are kept in constant motion, bulging out into the room like white-waistcoated aldermen in summer, and driven against the windows in winter by drafts of half heated air from one of Hawkins.' "self-feeding, self-cleaning giant furnaces." This furnace is a source of great comfort and rest to the Butterfield family. I say rest advisedly, for "change" is "rest," and the infinite variety of changes of this...
Speaking of the social delights of Harvard College students, a Cambridge correspondent of the Providence Journal is made to say : "Life was a round of pleasure, a constant succession of parties, sermons, receptions, five o'clock teas, and similar mild dissipations." It is reasonable to suppose that the correspondent wrote "germans" and not "sermons." - [Times, N. Y.] Without the correction the description is more near the truth...
Three features of the society deserve especial notice: 1-Its guiding principle will be common-sense, not fanaticism. 2-It will require no pledges from members. 3-It will not weary the students with constant appeals, but will assume that each student has sufficient intelligence and conscience to decide for himself whether or not to join the society...
...glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus avoids overloading the stomach. The great man will lecture through the country, and we infer that the price of admission will be on a scale corresponding with the life and habits of the lecturer - coins with holes in them will be taken at the ticket office; the coins returned...
...general thing, gotten down to regular work in the gymnasium. The one great thing needed here to stimulate the enthusiasm in athletics, is a new campus. The one we have is very small and uneven, and the proximity of a lake is a source of constant hinderance and great annoyance during a ball game, as a wild throw to first base generally results in the ball being lost in the water...