Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny Mann, whom he mistakes for another in the dim light, and saves the Colleen Bawn by a "header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead. At the moment of Cregan's marriage with the heiress, Myles produces the living Eily O'Connor, Hardress' lawful wife...
...Mann acts. Eily is led by him to enter his boat under the pretense that her husband has sent for her. He rows her to a solitary cave, which chances to be the secret haunt of Myles. The latter shoots Donny Mann, whom he mistakes for another in the dim light, and saves the Colleen Bawn by a "header" into the water. Cregan is arrested for murder on confession of Donny Mann, who is wounded, but not dead. At the moment of Cregan's marriage with the heiress, Myles produces the living Eily O'Connor, Hardress' lawful wife...
...That national spirit means more than a blind worship of the flag with us. When the band is assembled upon our flagships in China to play the national air as our flag is unfurled to the morning sun, every sailor's heart grows warm and sometimes his eyes grow dim, not because that flag represents a nation, but because justice and liberty, peace and rest, the purity and sacredness of his home dwell beneath its folds across...
...extremely witty, the wittiest character, except perhaps Benedict, in English literature. Portia was a very 'nice' personage. She had a very sweet and skillful tongue, and a pleasant and graceful, though keen, wit. But she was what we should now call a little strong minded. She was the first dim prevision of the new woman. It must have been hard for her to give up the right hand of government when Bassanio returned from the trial. The character of Imogen is difficult to describe. Her nature was distinctly feminine. Though she was not witty, her words were to the point...
...should sit down and realize the danger, by attempting to do some careful reading in a book, perhaps in a foreign language and with poor and discolored paper. Now let this officer or wealthy alumnus think that a large number of men are straining their eyes in this dim light for four to six hours, six days in the week. More and more the library is becoming the work-shop of the University. Imagine for a moment the men working in the chemical and physical laboratories behind ground glass set in windows, obscured outside by higher buildings and inside...