Word: faults
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their behalf; and fear of publicity, fear of the enthusiasm of indignation, fear of "bad form," forsooth. What is left for me henceforth? Obscurity only. After my services of so many centuries "for the public good," to be thus silently contemned is too much. To be called "grumbler," "fault-finder," and a "thing," is more than even the flesh and blood of so antiquated a creature as myself can bear...
...recent writer says in regard to the girl of today, "Complain and find fault as we may, we must acknowledge that the modern miss is after all, a pretty nice institution, and one that we wouldn't care to part with. Why grumble at their vanity, you silly fellow, when you are the only one to profit by it? If they dress well, talk well, even flirt just a little bit, we don't care about having them any different than they really are, and with all due regard for our grandmothers, we say, God bless the girls of today...
...Father, do not look at me so! Do not talk to me so! It was not my fault; I was lost in the forest. I came back as soon as I could...
...made with a view to what seem the desires of the majority of the students, provided these be reasonable on hygienic grounds. It was not supposed when the 5.30 limit was set that there would be a demand for any other; nor is it believed that the present fault-finding really voices the sentiments of many: it is little more than the grumbling of a few who grumble merely for the sake of grumbling. They are of a sort with the individual who, coming into the Gymnasium one cold day, and changing his heavy ulster for a light gauze shirt...
WHEN I was a Freshman I was ambitious. But ambition I knew was a generous fault, one that belonged to noble natures. I wished to be an athlete. None of your tennis champions or great Lacrosse players (honored opponents of Kanucks and Indians), but a real, genuine, out-and-out athlete. I panted for the honors of the oar, the bat, the ball. I went into training. I am, therefore, now qualified by experience to talk of training. In the first place, I will mention some of its recommendations. It 's an interesting state, one that is warranted to fascinate...