Word: ghostly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...declamatory in his delivery, and lacked naturalness in his action. Mr. Richardson as Casca took the opportunity in interrupting Cassius and Brutus to deliver one of the most peculiarly theatrical outbursts of the evening. He mouthed his words very badly, and spoke in a sepulchral tone worthy of the ghost of Caesar. While the acting of Mr. Jones as Brutus showed some lack of study, the purity of his enunciation was in marked contrast with the indistinct utterance of many of the other actors. The scene between Brutus and Portia afforded some opportunity for delicacy of treatment, but Mr. Stevens...
...made ready for high thoughts. For the office of the Gothic drama is not to give us merely the chiseled image of some heroic man agitated by one mighty passion, but rather to display the forces that are struggling in all men; to overawe us with the ghost of our own past and our own future, so that we may truly say: The world is passing in review...
Boating at Princeton seems to have fulfilled the prophecy, and to have died a natural death, Though last year it refused to be strangled, it has now, taking one consideration with another, probably made up its mind that the best thing to do is to gracefully yield up the ghost. The college, though fully appreciating the strenuous exertions of last year's crew, are quite willing to cease contesting where we are bound always to be the "tail-piece."-[Princetonian...
...squarely face the present outlook in foot-ball, and see just how desperate our chances for success have really become. It is only by so doing, and then, in the full realization of all this means, by rousing from our present strange lethargy to new energy, that even a ghost of a show of winning the championship is left us. To anyone who has watched the men practicing on Jarvis, these words are perhaps unnecessary, for all such must have noticed, not only how few men were at work, but how small, comparatively, these few men were. There is really...
This is a very fair specimen of gloom of another kind than that used by the "sea" poets. It has the weirdness and ghastliness of a silly ghost story told in full daylight, and produces about as much real effect on the hearer...