Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...walked on in deep reverie. "T is true," I said to myself, "that collecting is the rage of the age; I don't collect; can it be said that...
This question was too deep to solve; but the truth remained that every one collects something. Little boys collect birds' eggs; little girls, postage-stamps; theatre-goers, photographs; young ladies collect gentlemen's cards; older gentlemen collect tracts and MSS.; middle-aged ladies have a perfect mania for old lace and delft; and, finally, tradesmen are crazy to collect bills...
...fair companion and I were soon deep in a pleasing discussion on social life...
...overlooked by those who have not profited by bitter experience. The windows, for instance, in the University recitation-rooms are, in nine cases out of ten, so arranged as to throw the sunlight right into the faces of the class, and to envelop the instructor in a deep shadow, whence, like the Homeric gods, he can see without being seen. Unpleasant as it is to be unable to distinguish the instructor's expression or to see what he is looking at, it is still more unpleasant to have the light bewildering our notes or shining in our eyes...
...Senior was evidently getting into deep water, so he hastened to change the subject...