Word: ethereal
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...very serious. In the former, the clothing must be lifted off most carefully, and flour or grease should be spread over the burn, to protect it from the cool air. In conclusion, dislocated bones must never be set, unless the patient can be put under the influence of ether...
...term "atmosphere" has fallen into such disrepute that it is dangerous to use it seriously. It would be a lamentable fact if the air of a university town were not a little rarified, if there were not that purer ether and diviner air around us; but people laugh at the idea, and arguments break like straws against ridicule. But this atmosphere is very apparent, let us say at Cambridge, England, where each college has its characteristic feature, and hence offers peculiar inducements to men of this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing...
Through the blue ether and lower...
...spirits. They anticipated a hard race and victory. The Yale men were well and jolly, except the redoubtable Cook, who was profoundly agitated because a neglected bed of weeds, opposite the city, had been buoyed, under the direction of Harvard, without consulting him; and the "Commodore" filled the surrounding ether with vague threats and hints of trouble escaped and to come. In the morning both crews were well and happy, Yale boisterous and Harvard quiet...
...absurd for the Argus to speak of local pride and petty conceit. When a great and famous University, situated within a stone's toss of Boston Common, and having a magnificent view of the State House, enjoying the inestimable advantage of inhaling the pure, moral, and intellectual ether of the Athens of America; its Senior class disporting itself in the salons of an ex-governor and an eminent lecturer, and enjoying the society of three deans, two professors, and an authoress, - when such a university feels a just pride in its advantages, and mentions them frequently in its journal...