Word: gallops
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...enough that our athletic spirit has become so extravagantly shaped by outside influences--the newspapers and the public who have sat astride of us and spurred us into an absurd athletic gallop--and we should be suspicious of any tendency to emphasize the spectacular side of Class Day, or Commencement. Both these institutions have been built up for many years by the customs and traditions of many classes, and changing them because we have been presented with a fine amphitheatre is akin to coasting in June because someone has given us a toboggan. In spite of the fact that Sanders...
...Flash Gallop. Banjo Club...
...riders is such that if the future A. B. will be of no avail in obtaining a livelihood, a place in the lists of the itinerant circus will always be open. There are generally three or four players on a side, but the way in which the ponies gallop about the field makes it seem as if there were many more. Last Friday the play, influenced perhaps by the pressure of a number of spectators, was exceptionally fine. Morris, '85, made a number of brilliant plays, twice outriding all his competitors and carrying the ball the whole length...
...takes eight hundred full-blown roses to make a single tablespoonful of the famous perfume, and you can get enough perfume out of an onion to drive a dog on the gallop out of a slaughter house. And yet we admire the rose more than we do the onion. - [Post...
...vehicle, and perches himself upon it. I perceive that I shall have to drive myself. Get in and chirrup to the horse. He does not stir. The boy produces a whip, and, lashing the animal, says something that sounds like "shoe blacking," whereupon my Bellerophon breaks into an uncouth gallop (on afterthought, am not quite certain whether Bellerophon was a horse...