Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...when under proctors, liars. But you know, as well as I, the shallowness of their morality, which would justify dishonorable action on the ground of its expediency, and in the face of a condition or the loss of a degree would make cribbing a virtue endowed with saving grace. Just as though such losses were not the inevitable result of previous, long-continued neglect of duty; and they would be borne as such by men who were not so childish as to need a master, and who were brave enough to recognize their own responsibility for their acts...
Each rolling year adds but a tender grace...
...dazzlingly, there swept so much of grace...
...grace, if robbed of her sweet presence I must live...
...That grace the waving fields where'er they roam...