Word: demi-god
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...jolt which sent tutors, students, and janitors into a frenzied hunt. For the "rabbit which is Leverett House" was carried off by force. The matter has been placed into the efficient hands of the Metropolitan Police, but little hope is felt for the return of this mascot and demi-god revered by every staunch heart in the House...
...minds of his countrymen. Throughout Russia, especially in the rural districts where peasants view with alarm any change in the seasoned order of crops, his image is often to be seen enshrined on a stone pedestal, illuminated with lighted candles. Out of a patriotic hero has sprung a veritable demi-god...
...bent and lost control--he laughs, capers, and altogether offers a more convincing counterfeit of madness than the actors unchanging tragic mask allowed his most deliberate efforts. A little more of lightness, at those points where the author saw their need, might bring this demi-god to our level...
...secular eternities--when nine o'clock was the dawning hour of the day, and the sun, the student, and the voice of the tocsin to the first class arose simultaneously and at once. He was a hero who attended nine o'clock classes thrice a week. He was a demi-god who managed to get his breakfast beforehand. Most men never knew that the dawn bestirs itself more than three hours before noon. Only botanists and late wassalers had witnessed the phenomenon of dew upon the grass...