Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were nearly 6000 people present at vespers yesterday evening. Dr. Peabody conducted the service, while Dr. McKenzie occupied the reading desk. After reading the parable of the Prodigal Son, Dr. Peabody called attention to the condition of the prodigal at the moment he began his better life. He had drunk the cup of self-indulgence to its dregs; he had been a mockery of himself, but his true self had at length returned. Few of us have ever been in the condition of the prodigal, but in every serious life there comes a similar transition. Our minds may be moving...
...first title of man-hood. From it we viewed for the first time that beatific vision of the New Haven student, the New Haven girl; and whenever we return, no matter how long have been the intervening years, she looks as fresh and beautiful as if she had drunk at the fountain of perennial youth...
...Bruce's "Firdousi" is remarkably smooth, and conveys in delight fully poetic language this pathetic incident connected with the Persian poet's life. The choice of words is in many instances made with exceptional insight, as when he speaks of "jewels which had drunk of fire," or of the "dusty caravan," or again, "an old man, on whose brow the knots of pain were loosened now." No small charm is lent the rhythmic flow of the lines by the melodious oriental names used here and there. The poem is a very welcome departure from the abstruse and would-be metaphysical...
...theme heavily scored and underscored with marginal notes of "wretched grammar," "very bad taste," "atrocious English," utter lack of sense and want of connection." Remarks: "It is hard to conceive of a mind capable of producing such a villainous piece of work. The man that wrote it was evidently drunk." Mr. Crewman who reads this delicate censure upon his pet ideas, starts off with blood in his eyes and an Indian club to interview Freshworthy, while Freshworthy with his double-barreled shot-gun is looking up another man. Three-fourths of the section are seeking gore, and the instructor...
...induces perspiration, and cools the body. In reference to nutrition, we may say that tea increases waste, since it promotes the transformation of food without supplying nutriment. The best time to drink tea is after a hearty meal. Coffee in its action is similar to tea, and is best drunk at breakfast, as the system is then best fitted to bear it. Constipation is the cause of many ills for which other reasons are assigned. It has been thought by many that tobacco smoking occupied a prominent place in the production of dyspepsia, but a large number of facts...