Word: forlorn
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with hedges. These two simple expedients will prevent the immediate surroundings of the university from taking on at any point the usual aspect of "vacant lots" in the outskirts of towns and villages, features which, in California, on account of the dry summer climate, are apt to be more forlorn even than in the east...
...homes. Aside from the pleasure arising from the social intercourse between the students now in college, the club will doubtless prove a great benefit to freshmen coming from Minnesota as a means by which they may make friends early in their college course and be freed from that forlorn condition of straying aimlessly around during the first few weeks without knowing anyone...
...scene changes to where the maidens are waiting instant death tied to a rickety stake. The braves vanish for a moment, and their victims take the opportunity to call for aid by blowing a vivacious duet on trumpets. Enter Stubs, who after comic business with the Indians rescues the forlorn females. The wretched John Harvard mean while has been searching for said forlorn females, and while he is lamenting, the successful lovers followed by both choruses appear. Suddenly Stubbs enters and resigns the claims he has on the fair heroines in favor of Rev. Milkweed and Cholmondeley, Harvard being thus...
Cambridge seemed more forlorn to the few hopeless wretches who were conscientious enough to remain here Thanksgiving than perhaps ever before in its history...
...trying to introduce a new sport into a college where boating was at its height, where base-ball was all the rage, and where tennis and rifle clubs were rising into prominence. Lacrosse, though of slow, has still been of sure growth. We may imagine the first few forlorn players creeping out to some retired part of Holmes field to practise their strange sport. In the fall of 1879, however, the prospects of the game brightened. In that year the following set of officers were elected to the association: Wright, '81, president; Manning, '82, vice-president; C. F. Squibb...