Word: crawling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wealth and glory by the capture of Fra Diavolo, the bandit Marquis and his lawless retainers. There are two subordinate Canditti - though far from subordinate in the interest they impart to the drama - Beppo and Giacomo, Beppo a half bully, half coward, who would stab an innocent girl, yet crawl on his knees at the mention of the Holy Virgin...
...around among their friends and get them to pay up also. He added that the crew was a good one and had a good chance of winning the race and that it would be an everlasting disgrace to '94 as well as to the college to have the crew crawl from the race on account of not having enough money to go to New London...
Sherrill. Robinson, Cheney, Lloyd, Williams, Deming, Clark, and the tug-of-war team, consisting of Crawl, Leavenworth, Lloyd and Dussler...
...Peabody spoke last night on our coming obstacles, physical, mental and moral. There are thres ways of dealing with an obstacle; to struggle with it unsuccessfully, to crawl around it meanly, or to surmount it. The exercise of surmounting obstacles gives to a person a mental and physical exhilaration which is lasting and ennobling. In a physical sense, after surmounting an obstacle, there may be a descent, but mentally and morally there is never descent. Many great men owe some of their strength to the obstacles they had to overcome. There are enough difficulties in the way of every human...