Word: faints
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...those who habitually clip from the newspapers in the Reading-Room whatever items or articles happen to attract their attention had but a faint conception of the inconvenience to other members which is caused by the habit, I am sure they would buy a copy of the paper desired rather than mutilate a paper of which they are, by no means, the sole owners. A sees something in the Advertiser or Herald or World that he wants, and he cuts it out. Soon afterward I, B, hear of the article, which is, in all probability, general interest to Harvard students...
...Hall last winter? For a short while we were daily rejoiced by the spectacle of a faded young gentleman whose striking feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed him to be the former of those gentlemen, on the historical occasion when he needed a glass of water to "brace him up"; but whoever...
Ambrosia to the faint...
...first part he made a faint movement towards going...
...Michigan University Chronicle, which always is absorbed in some one subject of consuming interest, in its last issue discusses the beauty and general utility of "University Hall." Of the beauty we can get a faint idea from the admission by one of its defenders, that "the facade shows an incongruous mixture of wood, stucco, and galvanized iron,' and that "Mr. Ruskin might writhe in agony at the sight of the building." Without having been to Michigan, we have a fair idea of " University Hall...