Word: fear
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...devotion to notice how many others were in an equally religious frame of mind. Therefore, we recommend to the overseers that in their visits-if they wish to see how much good the students get out of compulsory chapel, they neither pray, nor sing, nor read. They need not fear that their conduct will be out of place, for, we assure them, they will find plenty of others who do not make Chapel their place of worship...
...actions? I knew, at once, that when I lost my body, the baser part of my mind, the passions must have remained with it. These passions, then, were the controlling power in this other side of my dual existence. But they could only act for evil! A great fear of what they would do came over me. I tried to warn the people of the house. I could not move. Then I sought by an effort of the will to make my other self obey me. It only stood there, and leered at me. Then it left the window. Although...
...confused with recollections of what I had just been reading in De Quincey. What I remember most is my own face glancing at me, as the murder went on, with looks of mockery and hate. Then the room suddenly filled with people. I recollect the chill of fear I felt as the instinct of self preservation rushed over my mind. Then with body and soul no longer separate, but united, I know not how, I dashed through the window, and plunging out into the darkness, fied to escape my crime...
...Shooting Club resumes its matches this afternoon. The shooting house at Watertown will be warmed, so that no members of the club need be deterred from attending through fear of the cold...
...brave," however, "belong the fair:" so with proper courage, and with a little co-operation from within, the student need not fear. Yet the average visitor will gain more coolness and self-possession, if he spends some little time in looking for the narrow but hidden way that leads to the delightful place, than if he scorns to reconnoitre and scales the high banking. No doubt an entrance by the latter way lends chivalry to the undertaking, in the eyes of the young ladies; but alas, the days of chivalry are past with the powers that be, and a chivalrous...