Word: dampen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...given to-morrow night. More men must sign the book at Bartlett's, or the dinner will be a failure. A crew which won two such grand victories as those of last June, is deserving of the highest honor, and every sign of indifference in rendering this honor will dampen the ardor of future crews, and thus imperil our aquatic interests...
There is undoubtedly something repugnant in a blue book, the mere sight of one is apt to excite our animosities; they have an effect upon us something akin to that produced by a Yale-Harvard foot ball match-they dampen our ardor. However, like many another thing here at Harvard, they are a necessity, and we have no choice but to support the book stores at this period of the year by a liberal patronage in blue books. Someone is made happy, at any rate. Let us not be so selfish as to want to take away this pleasure...
...crews? Further, enthusiasm among the members of a crew is what calls out new candidates; therefore this action of the Law School will lesson to a great degree the desire of new men to try for the undergraduate crews. While I would not wish in the least to dampen the ardor of our legal fellow-students, it does seem that it would be but just for them to allow the class races to remain distinctively class races. They would perhaps allow a suggestion that to show their earnestness in rowing and their disinterested intentions, they should get a good eight...
Malaria.Fitz Clarence arrived at Princeton with a light heart and thirteen trunks. Not even the sight of several dozen coffins piled up at the station awaiting shipment could dampen his enthusiasm. He walked briskly up the principal street, and scanned with wonder the long lines of undertakers' shops and brilliant drug-stores that met his eye on every side. A forest of doctors' signs shaded the street and kept off the heat of the sun, while the air was redolent with the pungent odors of the billowy canal...