Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...rowing-weights, for a lifting-machine, and other apparatus which we do not find here at present. That most useful exercise, too, of swinging the Indian clubs would be more tempting to the embryo Hercules if there were space for him to indulge in it without being in imminent danger either of splitting open the head of a bystander as the ponderous club swiftly descends, or of meeting a like fate at the hands of another. Room, then, and the consequent increase in the variety of apparatus, is what is needed...
...great men of the land. One of the small boys thinks he is the governor. He rather enjoys this, and does his best to carry out the illusion. He has spied one or two pretty girls in his audience, whom he proceeds to regard especially, to the eminent danger of subverting the discipline of the school. The teacher calls out his pet class to recite in Virgil, and our "dig" (ah, so fallen!) takes the offered book. He listens nonchalantly to a translation, and a number of questions from the teacher, when the latter, perhaps seeing the state...
...reason that the gas should be put out at eleven, rather than at nine or ten; for few go to bed so early, and most find it natural to get their water and coal after everything else has been done. We do not lay much stress upon the danger that any one may tumble down stairs and break his neck; but, from personal experience, we know that it is very exasperating to come down with a thump and a bite of the tongue, when we have miscalculated the number of steps. The possibility that one may be brought up full...