Word: fraying
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...Duchess Emilia," Mr. Wendell has given us a book which is strangely at odds with the tendency of novel writing at the present time. Don Quixote, armed for the fray, would present no stranger figure in our streets than does this romance among the novels of to-day. For instead of minute analysis of his characters, Mr. Wendell has told us in straightforward and manly language a story of men and women who were swayed and tormented by great passions. Oftentimes in this age of realism, one grows tired of so much analytical fiction, for life is by no means...
...rights,- fearful lest the faculty might infringe upon what it terms its legitimate powers. At this meeting, a resolution was passed, declaring that there should be no change made in the requirements for admission to Harvard College without its consent. Here is a direct clash of authority. The fray now begins. The students can stand one side, and cheer their respective champions. But would not all this strife have been prevented, had there been a conference committee between faculty and overseers...
...Monday night. the affair, from a belligerent point of view, was a ridiculous failure. The sentiment in each of the classes was strongly against a rush, and most of the men went home peaceably as soon as the procession disbanded. Some, however, who lingered behind were precipitated into a fray by the bulldozing efforts of certain hilarious upper-classmen. The combat, when once begun, was marked by a commendable willingness on each side to cease hostilities. On the whole we think the participants in this rush deserve the thanks of the college. They treated us to the spectacle...
...gave promise of many years more to be added to a long life which even then eclipsed the oldest graduate's. When he rose exulting in the air, propelled by the toe of the valiant Ropes, looking like the war angel sounding the onset and hovering over the mingling fray, we little thought then that to-day he would lie so low, surrounded by weeping Sophs! Exult, ye Freshmen, and clap your hands! The wise men who make big laws around a little table have stretched out their arms to encircle you, and for this once, at least, your eyes...
...from the fought-out fray 'gan call