Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...roll up innumerable yards of ribbon that seem left under her rampart, the counter, for this very purpose. You may rarely take her off her guard, and she seems the same "yesterday, to-day," - but all of a sudden she is gone. You miss her again, - she is dead...
...shall publish nothing further in regard to them. The general interest taken by undergraduates in this discussion has made us so sceptical as to the real existence of that indifference, that we fear any future agitation of the question will partake of the nature of the desecration of a dead issue. Our many exchanges, who could scarcely be expected to take a very lively interest in so merely local a question, we would anticipate in the criticism of here affording further evidence of "Harvard's egotism and self-conceited superiority," and would say to them that such introspection as this...
...sporting Senior who had a public for keeping a dog in the Yard because he put his stuffed raccoon in his window had the "dead wood...
...Left us dead to use and name and fame...
...examples of flatness, we may quote the statements that "Columbus is dead"; that " the Cathedral [of Pisa] is built in the form of a Latin cross,"-nothing more being said of the building; and that " before me lay Naples, while on the right, old Vesuvius was sending forth its dense columns of white smoke." Of the Bay of Naples no further mention is made...