Word: eye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much to be deplored that our faculty looks with no lenient eye upon games with professional teams. Each one of our great rivals has this privilege and makes use of it to the utmost; and the benefit which they derive from these games is shown immediately by the marked improvement in their playing. It is a well-known fact that one can acquire more good and get more practice when one is beaten than when one is victorious. It is always better to play with a more powerful rival than it is to play such teams as our nine...
...large scale, extending from the chest to the knees. The sword arm, from the wrist to the shoulder, was then padded and bandaged to three times its natural size, and the hand guarded by a thick leathern gauntlet. Lastly, a pair of spectacles, rimmed with metal, protected the eyes. The schlager, or duelling sword, is then placed in his hand - a nasty looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging...
...Dorothy Bell" is well written, rather pointless and as yet the telescopic eye of the Sheff. note editor has been unable to discover why the chimneys of "my aunt's" house should be "comfortably smoking" while Mollie is at the same time "shading her eyes from the hot sun." Smoking with reflected heat, probably. The essay on "Modern Realism" is partly true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side...
...size with a blue cover engraved with a picture of University Hall, appeared in 1835. The editors in their opening address offer a very remarkable array of talent: "The frank and high-spirited son of the South, the cool and indefatigable Northerner, the poet with tremulous nerves and flashing eye, the reserved and imperturbable mathematician, the meditative and subtile metaphysician, are all for a time united and will probably impress their distinguishing peculiarities upon the work." The noticeable characteristic of this periodical was its fertility in stories, and poetry of more than ordinary merit. Among its editors who have since...
...height of Greek art, with Pheidias, sculpture reached a point where the complete harmony between material and form was reached. Here the stone has been so completely vitalized, and life has been so masterfully monumentalized, that the eye is oppressed by neither, but delighted by both...