Word: gasps
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sodality. No unnecessary introductions took place. They were served, after a long and freezing ride from Cambridge, with "coffee which they drank because it was hot and they were cold," and cake from the effects of which, as the CRIMSON declares, some of them gave their last gasp and expired. They complain of being stared at as if they were statuettes, but how could we help regarding them, in our anger and pity at their aimless misery? It was no vulgar curiosity. We know what the coffee and cake were-who better? Some reparation from some society in college...
...last single scull race with Yale was in '79, when Mr. Goddard of Harvard defeated Mr. Livingston of Yale at Worcester. In the following year Mr. Hall won the inter-collegiate single sculls for Harvard at the National Regatta. This seems to have been the last gasp of single sculling here; since then we have had no single scull races of note...
...charming is a college life; so quiet, so peaceful, so free from care." This thought has hardly passed through our minds, when a horrid noise re-echoes from the wall, rolling from story to story with wild clamor; at last it dies away, and when silence reigns again we gasp, with dismay, "What on earth was that?" "That," says Snodkins, taking his cigarette from his lips, and blowing fragrant little rings of smoke into the air, "that is a man who bought a drum before the election, and who practices it yet; sounds rather loud in the well, doesn...
...shovel, at last prevailed, and only the charred remains of six once flourishing and prosperous barrels remained to mark the path of the fire-fiend. Late in the night the drowsy slumberer was awakened by the explosion of a belated cracker smouldering in the coals, and uttering its expiring gasp long after its fellows had died their death of glory. Then quiet reigned and all was still...
...unfair as to block a man so that he could not catch the ball, and even if he touched it he would be hurled to the ground. Four or five Yale men would repeatedly sit upon some unfortunate wearer of the crimson, which would cause the poor fellow to gasp for breath, half-choked as he arose. Again and again did Yale foul Harvard, knocking the ball out of the player's hands after he had made a catch, the referee giving the ball to Harvard each time. Once this was done near Harvard's goal and a touchdown claimed...