Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...space of three hours. Three hours and a half after the examination began a majority of the class was still in the examination-room, nor was the room empty when four hours were up. Now, since we were particularly requested in this examination to "pay attention to form as well as substance," we should like to request of the instructor some attention on his part to the swiftness with which the minutes pass, and also to the imperfect powers of man. This, I think, but a fair request, for, when more is expected than a mere answer to the questions...
...lifeless form, and cast it on the sand...
...which we display ourselves as "liberally educated young men," and aunts and cousins, young and old, come to gaze with wondering eyes upon us, we appear in a dress by no means appropriate to the occasion. No blessing was ever conferred upon man equal to that which prescribed the form of dress which he should wear at evening. A morning coat can be of many a shape and many a shade, but when we meet at night we need have no thought of our dress, we must all be arrayed alike. To this blessing custom has added another in prescribing...
...mine of charms of form and face...
...bear away the fairy form...