Word: fears
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...said I, "I think I do, but I don't understand pools very well any way, I wish you 'd explain to me the way you do it; because I don't like to ask anybody I don't know, for fear they 'll laugh...
...order of examinations should be published early have no just ground for complaint; and the plan of putting the examinations in the Sophomore required work in the middle instead of at the end meets with decided favor. Many are relieved to find no afternoon examinations on the list, fear having been felt that this plan, which proved so objectionable in mid-years, would again be resorted to, in order to save time...
...said that as long as a dog is thirsty, there is no fear of hydrophobia. This is a most comforting reflection for all of us who are daily edified by the thirst (after knowledge) of a spitz dog belonging to one of the professors. The longing glances which this animal casts at the windows of U. 9 from the steps below are truly a rebuke to those - if there be any - who undervalue their advantages...
...wide nor too high. The books are not too brightly gilt, nor are they too sombre. But this is the very thing that leads me to doubt. I cannot believe that, however sincere in construction the book-case may be, the owner's heart is in his books. I fear that the book-case is only there because it does harmonize with the room. I am afraid that the books, if not bought by the cubic foot, were purchased more for the sake of the gilded leather than the printed paper. Let us leave this man who, I cannot help...
...matchless voice, and at the same time the wretched insufficiency of Lyceum Hall for such a piece. In response to an encore he sang Millard's "Grand Old Ocean" in a manner which can only be imagined by those who have heard him before, and which we fear to attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung with clearness, sweetness, and at times true pathos, though a captious critic would have desired...