Word: earthly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...back quadrangle or garden. Some of these are very large and are very beautifully kept. The buildings themselves are of great size and of the most substantial and enduring construction. So solid, and eternal, and venerable do they look that one might fancy that they were born with the earth...
...German universities have conquered a position of honor not confined to their fatherland; the eyes of the civilized world are upon them. Scholars speaking the most different languages crowd toward them, even from the farthest parts of the earth. Such a position would be easily lost by a false step, but would be difficult to regain...
...young gentleman was passing an examination in physics. He was asked, "What planets were known to the ancients?" "Well, sir," he responded, "there were Venus and Jupiter, and (after a pause) "I think the earth, but I am not quite certain...
...striving to lesson the amount of intemperance, it has issued a number of shingles, and now, contented, it sits with folded hands and tearful eyes awaiting the regeneration of the students. If this is the method to be used to check intoxication, it may fairly be asked why on earth the society was ever started, for its mission seems to be only to foolishly await a better state of affairs without aiding it on in the least...
...earth bows' heath golden sway...