Word: deadly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...containing the doomed book was borne by six pall-bearers, who were effectively, though perhaps somewhat inappropriately dressed in costumes of red flannel with tails attached. The procession marched from its rendezvous at some point in the city out to the college grounds to the solemn strains of the dead march. Torches were carried, red light, and other fire-works displayed. Arrived at the campus, the coffin was placed upon a tall funeral pile which had been prepared, the match applied, and while the flames were consuming the pyre, a funeral oration was pronounced over the dead. A bright...
...story entitled "My Compact with the Dead" by A. M. Cummings, appeared in Saturday's Record...
There is no writer of English, alive or dead, whose works would stand the tests applied by professors to the compositions of pupils; and yet it is the usage of good writers and not the dictum of the professor that determines what is and what is not good English. N. Y. Commercial Advertiser...
Cycling, so dull at Harvard College last season as to be virtually dead, will be worse than ever in 1886. The members take no interest in the affairs of the club, and but one cyclist is in training for the races at Mott Haven. - Boston Herald...
...that the merry mid-years are holding high carnival in our midst, we are, or ought to be, capable of appreciating the agony of the man who finds himself confronted by some phrase of a dead or unfamiliar living language which he cannot, for the life of him, translate. No true Harvard man, however, will give up the attempt to construe a sentence because of any such trivial obstacle as total ignorance of its meaning. A good guess is not without its value, and if the guesser fails to hit within forty rows of apple trees of his mark...