Word: distant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with sincere regret that we notice the last lecture of the series is close at hand. We have enjoyed and profited by the words of Prof. Lanciani as we have by the words of few others, and we hope the time is not far distant when he shall instruct us further in a subject for which he has aroused a lively interest among...
...treasures buried in the bed of the river. In the course of the last year it has been ascertained that the river bed consists of archaeological strata arranged in chronological order. The authorities of Rome intend to make extensive scientific excavation of the river-bed in no distant time...
...under the perpetual inspirations of faith in God and faith in man. Those two together make the faith of Christ. May He who has been our Master from the far off beginning, be our Master, ever more and more acknowledged, ever more and more obeyed on even to the distant...
...been literally loafing,, and seems afraid to soil its new uniforms; they are dirty now, at any rate, and perhaps the play will improve in consequence. Ninety doesn't seem to realize that she has a game with Yale ahead of her at that, and only about three weeks distant, too. They urge in their defence, "Yes, but Sears and Harding will play in the Yale game." True, little friends, but one end-rush does not make a victory any more than the proverbial swallow makes a summer; you must train your eleven to play foot-ball and not puss...
...Above us looms the beautiful facade of the castle, its grim statues and stone gorgons, its fluting and arabesques, all that is uncouth and grotesque and mournful and majestic, flooded over with electric light and thrown into sharp relief. Far beneath us twinkle the lights of Heidelberg, from whose distant streets a gentle murmur is upborne. About us are throngs of students in their bright colored caps; old veterans are clasping each other's hands and recalling by-gone days; grave professors grow ruddy and boyish; the younger students sing snatches of college songs; and limitless beer is flowing, together...