Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fear for the mental condition of the Advocate. Our sister had safely passed through the spasmodic outbreak of energy which attended the inauguration of the new board of editors. She was about to relapse into the wonted quiet tenor of her slumberous existence. Suddenly a strange outburst of sound caught her ear, and woke her up again. From the pineclad forests of Maine to the billowy praries of the boundless West; from the frozen confines of the region where the Bates Student pipes its lay to the faraway abode of the Kansas University Review, she heard a swelling chorus resounding...
...sport of yesterday afternoon, though favored by every other condition of weather, was marred by the element that trap shooters most fear, a strong, gusty wind. In spite of this, however, the closing competition of the present series of matches was marked by good all-round shooting in the singles, while the work done in the doubles may be fairly termed excellent. In looking over the scores in Match A it was found that Mead, '87, was tied with J. N. Austin, '88, for second place, and the shoot-off resulted in a victory for Mr. Austin. Twelve members...
...uncomfortable as it looks, however, altho' its seat has been hardened by the weight of two or three generations. And now, tired out by this everlasting theme writing, I lie down upon it, draw my afghan over me, and seek that dreamland whither I fear my reader has long since preceded...
...drifts along until his wife dies. Then he is plunged into bitter grief-a grief so honest that we are forced to respect it, for grief, somehow, throws a mantle of dignity around even a fool. Yet his sorrows are much aggravated by various causes-among others a natural fear taking root in his mind that perhaps he would be condemned to Hell on his death. He speaks of "the want of absolute certainly of being happy after death, the sure prospect of which is frightful." And for a year he is the picture of woe and gloom...
...other didn't, so nothing came of it. The beginning of this courtship was most romantic. "She was so good," he says, "as to prevail with her mother to come to Auchinleck, where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such a poetical way Boswell was not shaped enough on the Greek model to make such wooing a complete artistic success, for he straightway begins to feel that his suit is not prospering, and summons a friend to help him. His friend...