Word: descendant
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Moliere has had severe critics. Long after his deat Bossuet found fault with him; later still Rousseau discussed him. But this very discussion of Moliere, does him the highest honor. Moliere can never descend from his high position or lose his deserved reputation...
...door in the wings leads to the club house and stairs descend to the dressing rooms below. A heater will warm the whole building by means of two large hot air shafts which go from the stage to the auditorium. The number of electric lights to be used is estimated at one hundred, all of which will be operated from the key-board on the stage...
...effect of Harvard on the morals of Boston is about the same as that of a standing army of idle soldiers on a European garrison city. An army of rich and idle young men descend upon the town; they may increase the gayety of the world; they do not decrease the social evil and its train of iniquities...
...last glacial epoch. It consists of a belt of irregular gravel hills, extending about twenty miles from near Narragansett Pier to Watch Hill, averaging a mile in breadth, and fifty to a hundred feet in local relief. On the northern side, the moraine blocks the streams that descend from the interior, thus forming lakes and swamps, whose united overflow to the west creates Pawcatuck river. On the southern side, the moraine is fronted by a plain of sand and gravel, spread out by the wash of ice-water from the margin of the glacial sheet. This plain slopes...
...walk invisible like fern-seed, and witness unharmed the plague at Athens or Florence or London; accompany Caesar on his marches, or look in on Catiline in council with his fellow conspirators, or Guy Fawkes in the cellar of St. Stephen's. We often hear of people who will descend to any servility, submit to any insult, for the sake of getting themselves or their children into what is euphemistically called good society. Did it ever occur to them that there is a select society of all the centuries to which they and theirs can be admitted for the asking...