Word: dull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pleasant and interesting walks about Cambridge. I might mention more, but why enumerate longer? Cambridge is inexhaustible-nearly every street leading to something worth seeing. Let the pedestrian only be observant and study the houses, and whatever else he may see, and he will find Cambridge no dull place. Indeed, belonging, as Cambridge does half to this, half to the last century, but few more interesting cities are to be found in this country...
...hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict with none of our other sports. Indeed, it might be made a valuable auxiliary to them as a form of winter training. Many a man does not go to the gymnasium, because he finds it dull work to pull at the chest weights, and many another, who does go, would gladly participate in some out door sport which would give him enough exercise to keep him warm and be sufficiently exciting to give him an interest. Hockey is just what such a man wants...
...Anglo Saxon students,) who confound historical value with literary value, and often bestow the highest praise on works which to the modern taste have no literary excellence. Second, don't be discouraged if an author who at one time has moved us seems at another time to be insufferably dull. This experience comes to every...
...Advancement of Medicine by Research, to an audience filling the small hall in the Divinity building. His lecture was a plea in behalf of research by means of experiments on animals. He spoke of pain being a subjective sensation and relative in value. In animals which are dull in sensibility compared with man the sensation of pain is comparatively less. Many of the actions and cries which they make are out of proportion to the pain they bear, and are consequently misleading. The whole question is whether it is worth while to make animals suffer for the benefit...
...shooting was very difficult because of the driving snow and dull light, which made it almost impossible to see the balls, and more especially the pigeons, when sprung from the traps...