Word: creep
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...race of life there comes to his tone a touch of sadness. That is the race that can be won only by long and patient toil. All Paul can say is "let us run with patience." There are many who do not run at all, who walk, who creep, some even who sit down. All of us are sometimes discouraged and are tempted to throw up the race because it is so hard, or so monotonous. Let us remember that no great thing can be quickly accomplished and that perhaps the truest test of character is to work hard...
...after all is said, we still recognize the true man. In fact, "virtue" really means more today than ever. Though a low conception of manliness has been allowed to creep in, still we honor the man who is truthful, generous, open hearted, courteous, and pure, the true...
...Limp One" by Kenneth Brown is unique, to say the least. It is a fantastic sketch of physiology class of ghouls, the "limp one" being what Is familiarly known in medical parlance as a stiff." A number of "little moonbeams" are permitted to creep into the room and they form the medium through which the story is told. The style of the sketch is that of one of Anderson's fairy stories with a lack of the latter's delicacy of expression, one noticeable defect being the constant repetition of the expression "little moonbeams...
...tints giving an admirable combination of artistic and photographic effects. The model of the glacier represents a mountainous district with much variety and detail of structure and form, including two lofty gathering basins, where the snow is accumulated and converted into ice, and from which two unequal ice streams creep down, becoming confluent in a single valley further on. The various features of the scene are reproduced with great faithfulness, from the bergschrunds at the foot of the snow slides, to the seracs, crevasses, dirt bands, and moraines, the latter being tinted according to the rocks from which they...
...Hezekiah, king of Israel was very sick and being warned by Isaiah that he was going to die prayed to the Lord for his life. He recovered. He had thought all his work was done, his sun had almost set; when suddenly the shadow on the dial began to creep backward, he regained a portion of his youthful strength and he finds that many a days work is yet before him. So it is with many of us. Misfortune or advancing years makes us feel that there is but little left for us to do. A young generation perhaps...