Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...raises a window he always interferes with the lamp of the man next to the window. It seems as if some way could be found by which this terrible nuisance could be abated to a great extent. As it is, seventy-five men have to suffer for fear one man's lamp will be blown...
...objects very smartly because we say "to the manner born," instead of "to the manor born" (we suppose). "Such is culture," it says. The Era is, we fear, a little too previous. We do not care to discuss questions of Shakespearean text-interpretations in these columns, and we will only refer the Era to the discussions of the best critics on this matter, and it will see that we have plenty of justification (besides all common sense, etc.,) to sustain us in this reading...
...original case of green sealskin lined with velvet, in a wrapping of cotton, deposited in a box, and buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained by the last individual owner during the war, the fear of losing the medal by theft, fire, or accident, and the sense of relief expected to follow the knowledge that the medal was held in a secure place, induced the Widow Washington to part with...
...aimed directly at Harvard], they doubtless had the expectation that it would be taken as a very sensible and entirely proper method of expressing their critical opinion of the aesthetic side of art." Identifying Mr. Wilde and the "aesthetic side of art" is good. This whole discussion is, we fear, becoming somewhat tiresome; but then we must ask the American in what single instance college boys were incited by their daily journals to any such a heinous piece of business as we were guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote again...
...long enough to be able to handle an oar in a scientific manner, and no one doubts that they do so. Their experience in previous races will stand them well in hand, and if they pull as lusty an oar as they did last year Yale need have little fear...