Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...result. Here were the facts - the vision which had showed me my friend's murderer, and Mr. Edmund Austen, brother of the young woman - who was my plighted wife. Ah, what a deep and bitter tragedy was expressed in those few words! How could I account for these things except through supernatural causes? How could I account for supernatural causes? I had not been trained to believe in so startling spiritual manifestations as these. They were entirely apart from any thing I had ever known, and the light of experience, actual or possible, could not guide...
...Mechanically I made a hasty toilet and went over to breakfast. My friends told me that I looked pale, and had lost my appetite. It was no news to me. I asked if Stephen had been anywhere seen. No, not since yesterday. Where was he? I could say nothing, except that I did not know; I could not bring in that strange enchanted vision as evidence...
...silence was broken by the appearance of a small row-boat containing two people. One was a young man dressed in a comfortable-looking yachting costume, very much browned, however, by exposure to a New Hampshire sun; the other was a young woman dressed in much the same manner, except so far as the distinguishing marks of female attire went, with a very jaunty and coquettish hat set atop of a cluster of very bewitching brown curls. He was rowing rather leisurely toward the little white beach - if such it may be called - that bordered the inlet whither they...
...agreement, was not included under his charge. Now what conceivable official connection can there be between the Bursar and the Board of Directors of the Dining Association, that would bring them under his sway? The Dining Association does not pay rent to the College, so that the Bursar, who, except in respect to the lecture halls, acts merely as a money agent, a convenience to transfer the rent to the owner of the property, would not have even the shadow of the control over them which he believes himself to possess over the occupants of College rooms. "How, then, could...
...their criticism of our conduct would have been unnecessary, as the article in question appeared without any editorial comment on our part. From the beginning of the controversy with Yale, the Crimson has been strongly in favor of a race with that college, and has thought any other course except that of New London impossible. We trust that this answer will sufficiently explain our own position, and will show, at the same time, that we fully agree with our captain in most of the grounds urged by him against New London...