Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Just then an ominous growl broke upon my ears. I trembled violently, and my teeth rattled with fear. There was a rustling in the bushes - I looked up - I saw a horrid great creature with switching tail and fiery eyes. I wonder that I did not faint; perhaps I had self-possession enough to recognize the uselessness of such a proceeding; nevertheless I was paralyzed with fear, for the gates of eternity seemed about to engulf...
...fear it was not right...
...Smith, but also by giving her hair and eyes of the universal mind's own brown hue; and as I danced with her my own optics would wander away from her to the fair-haired Amy and that ill-omened Yale man, in spite of me, so that I fear the Miss Smith had a very meagre opinion of what Harvard "culchaw" had done...
...Senior Class elections will soon take place, and we wish to remind Seniors that a creditable Class Day is the result of an utter disregard of society lines in the elections for class officers. There is no fear now, as there was when '81 was the Freshman class, that Class Day will cease to be a College institution; that danger has passed away; but there is, unhappily, still extant a feeling that every one of the several sections into which each class is divided should have a due representation; even last year there was some dissatisfaction expressed over the "distribution...
Behind the quarter of a mile of these interesting sights came the pet of the whole show, - the baby elephant. It was named "Prayers," and was regarded as the spoilt child of the University. Fear-of-Public-Opinion bolstered its tottering steps on one side; rigid penalties - including suspension - performed this graceful office on the other. A choir - of one feeble-voiced, hired youth - walked in front, enticing it on by singing melancholy hymns. Altogether, it was a forlorn-looking creature...