Word: draws
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...roasted with as much neatness and despatch as the most ardent advocate of cremation could wish. Locked in their rooms, and in deep sleep, they could only be aroused to find escape impossible; the entries and stairways would act as most efficient chimneys, and the draught through them would draw the flames up from story to story with the utmost rapidity, effectually closing the only means of escape...
...have recounted and quoted the story at this length in order to draw an analogy which concerns us nearly...
...article in the Cornell Review attempts to draw a comparison between "Aurora Leigh" and "Pendennis." The title of the article is "Aurora Leigh as the Metrical and Feminine Complement to Thackeray's Pendennis." We are obliged to acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity...
...farther into the stream. The tide was running very strong, and number four was carried out of its course towards the opposite shore. The second boat felt the tide much less, and here took the lead. At the stake the two boats turned together. Page now began to draw away very quickly, increasing his lead every moment until the line was crossed two good lengths ahead. Lemoyne's crew were third...
...reportorial pens. It is very seldom, indeed, that an article appears in the Advocate or Crimson from which the public can get an erroneous impression of any phase of our college life. But when one does appear that admits of more than one rendering, and allows the reader to draw his own inferences, it cannot fail to have considerable influence in the wrong direction. Such an article as this was that entitled "The Lower Classes" in the last Crimson...