Word: faint
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Your Grandsir fell at Bunker Hill, but then he was n't dead. He lay there faint-like for a while, but finally up he got, About the time the redcoats charged, and sent...
...Faculty, useful as it is in itself, and ably managed as it is by its projectors, nothing but the vigorous support of its friends is wanting to make it second to none of the valued associations of the University, the H. R. C. not excepted, which is no faint praise, coming as it does from...
...like and dignified silence with great effect. We believe that he was not observed to smile during the whole course of the day, except, indeed, when a Harvard cheer saluted him, given by a party of undergraduates with great effect - considering. He then gracefully removed his plug, and a faint motion of the risible muscles was evident. His composure seems the more remarkable when we consider the ominous incident of his having tumbled through the platform at Concord...
...much profit you would derive from reading King John, if you were not taught the correct history of those events which Shakspere was obliged to misrepresent for the sake of his drama. Setting aside the question of profit, how much pleasure do you get, if you merely have a faint idea that John was king of England a long time...
...blows are neither faint...