Word: defencelessly
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...material things he was also supported by the thought that his family was far away from harm, sure of aid in case of his death, while the Confederate was battling almost on his own hearth, his family and loved ones daily exposed to the shock of battle and defenceless at his death. The southerner, too, was not fighting for a government, but for his property, slaves and traditional honor...
...have received a communication from a person signing himself "Harvard Graduate" calling us to account for our supposed hard treatment of the freshman eleven subsequent to their defeat at Exeter, and claiming that our editorials on the subject were written in a jealous spirit of upper class men, against defenceless fresmen. We are sorry that the gentleman did not sign his real name, for he thus prevented us from publishing his letter, but we feel compelled in justice to our selves. to the college, and to Eighty-Eight in particular, to defend the position which we assumed in our previous...
...anxious as if the cage had broken and the animals had been turned loose upon the country. To complete the simile the secretary of the treasury must be considered as the keeper of these wild beasts, vainly endeavoring to restrain them from their fierce onslaught upon the defenceless people...
...seems to me that it is about time that something should be said in defence of that much-maligned creature the proctor. The violent censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely old. I dare say that a close observer could detect a few straggling gray hairs in his head. No more do we hear the sound of the "squeaking boots" ; his manly tread is silenced. 'T is pitiful to see him moping on the corners with his brothers, or sitting with...