Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Suppliant knelt, and quailed in fear...
...Professor at last broke the silence. "I could sleep no more that night: I had a repelling horror of the thought, - a fear lest I might dream again. I sat there till the cold light of dawn broadened in the east, and the moon slowly whitened away to nothingness. Then I dressed myself, and, stepping out upon the upper balcony, watched the sunrise. As the colors warmed and deepened on the hills, and the broad ocean sparkled and shimmered, - so unlike that ghostly moon-swept sea of my dream, - this sense of oppression grew less vehement, as all such feelings...
...wish to take it, myself,' said Carlin, abruptly. 'You need not fear; I am an old salt...
...Yale Courant opens fire with some two columns of items, misnamed editorials. It is pleasant, too, to know that "WE ARE CHAMPIONS!" The Courant is mostly Yalensicula and Book Table. The 'Varsity's change of cover is no improvement, we fear; but the 'Varsity is emphatically a paper of sound judgment, - except possibly as regards the Notre Dame Scholastic, with which it is waging bitter war on the question of a college paper's right to publish official communications. The Yale News appears to be seriously alarmed at the indications of a "brace" by Harvard in athletic matters. "When Harvard...
...Then a student knew just what to expect for any breach of observance of College discipline, but now he is left in suspense. We are reminded, too, that in the world outside, the common experience of many generations has shunned giving absolute power to officers of the law, for fear of abuse or error, so that a judge is always limited by statute in the rigor of the sentence he may impose...