Word: faintly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pervades the college. This chance will present itself to-day, when the eleven goes to Exeter. Exeter is by no means invincible, as many of the freshman class seem to think, and if the team goes into the game with a fixed determination to win, and not in a faint-hearted spirit, there are good grounds for believing that the freshmen may wrest a hard-contested victory from an Academy which now holds the foremost place in foot-ball among the preparatory schools of New England...
...Harvard, while Sherrill, of Yale, was in the middle of the path, and so nearly in front of Lund (or Horr) that the picture shows, only part of his head, part of each shoulder, a thin strip of his left side from arm-pit to hip, and a faint trace of some part of his right leg. Neither of his feet are seen, and no human intelligence could determine from this picture whether he was a yard ahead or a yard behind Rogers...
Their sweet faint blush to the winds that stray...
...recent fainting cases in Mass. 3 have demonstrated two things about that picturesque, but uncomfortable room. First, that the upper windows in the south end are seldom, if ever opened; this makes the room excessively close. Second, these windows are not covered by curtains, and the unfortunates who take History 13 and Political Economy 4 are exposed to the glare of a noon-day sun on the back of their heads, till the page before them becomes a blur, and then they either faint, - or stay away. Seriously, this ought to be remedied; the complaint has been made so often...
...catch faint music from the coming...