Word: craving
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Dear Sirs:- I wish to call the attention of the University to the difficulties under which the Republican Club is laboring in distributing the uniforms, and to crave their assistance. Thirteen hundred men signed the blue books signifying their desire to participate in the parade. That number of uniforms have been ordered and are now on sale at Roberts Hall, Brattle street. It is highly probable, however, that many more than signed will wish to parade. We therefore earnestly urge every man to get his uniform as early as it is possible for him, in order that we may have...
...Bishop's secretary, he recognizes Robbie as a condemned exile, and orders him to be seized. Here the King declares himself and interferes. His officer, Baron Fundz appears, announcing that the castle is in his hands. There is nothing left for de Lion and the Bishop but humbly to crave pardon; which the King graciously grants. He repeats his offer to the Princess, but she is still faithful to the anxious Robbie, and the King is constrained to be content with the love of his happy subjects...
...impressed is the profound mystery hovering about the end of life. It is surrounded with a peculiar interest for all thinking men. In spite of scientific discoveries, we find ourselves continually falling back on the impenetrable mystery in which death is shrouded. The more we learn, the more we crave. New knowledge only reveals mysteries wider and deeper than ever. Friends and loved ones leave us for we know where. Love remains; therefore the sense of mystery still lives...
...them are thick with great visions of character and truth, and the busy years upon whose border their feet stand are calling them with the abundant testimony of activity and power-must not these be the days in which men catch the spirit of St. Paul, days when they crave the livest power for the highest work, both in themselves and in the world? Is it not there that men are standing on the Sunday before Class...