Word: fears
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Beware! you've cause for fear...
Among the grim influences of Puritan Boston, our benevolent Goose cherished her golden eggs of fancy. "The Swan of Avon is not the only bird that has made melody for all time." If we do not fear to make this comparison, we certainly shall not shrink from placing our author beside her contemporaries in that chill time, the grave Judge Sewall, and Governor Bradstreet's uncanny sister, who is remembered unpleasantly even at this day. Beside the utterances of the Judge, which breathe the spirit of the time, the spirit of funerals and of work, the cheerful rhymes of Mother...
...fear though "unattached" before...
...MARRYWELL. Yes, sister, you are right, I fear...
...attention: "We cannot say the idiot who is responsible for the above is a brick. This article may occasionally be found embedded in his cranial protector, - that is, if there be any cranium requiring protection." It is fortunate that Harvard is so distant from Niagara, or we really should fear personal violence from this would-be monk, who apparently believes that women have no business in the world. After all, in spite of the frequent recurrence of the Rt. Rev.'s and His Holiness in its pages, the Index is quite amusing, especially the exchange column...