Word: fears
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...might suppose that the writer of the attack tried to show by his own style what a failure the rhetoric instruction had been. We must grant, I fear, that it has been a complete failure in his case...
...University Reporter, from Iowa, publishes the fourth part of a poem entitled "The Tide of Time." It contains a Miltonic account of Eve's little adventure with the serpent, in four columns. We should like to quote them as a whole, but as this is impossible, refrain altogether, for fear of awakening a desire for more, which we could not gratify...
...like that?" said he, looking a little downcast. "For if you don't, I fear this about the goodies will hardly suit...
...newspapers claim, to the non-religious character of the University, but largely to the silence of students on such questions as we have been discussing, - a silence due in some cases to a love of ease and a hatred of all friction of intercourse, and in others to the fear of blackballs in the coveted election to some society...
...whom y Evil One hath enthrald. They - poor wicket creatures! do frequently sneak to a forest in the neighbouring hamlet of Watertown and do play cards, y which offence is punishable with expulsion. I pray daily that the fetlock of sin may be loosed from them, but I fear lest the devil harden their hearts against repentance. Now, I must say farewell, for 't is nine o' the clock, and we retire regularly at this hour...