Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Resolved, that we, deploring the death of one who when among us so fully entered into the interests of his class, here express our grief at his loss, and our sympathy with those who best knew and loved...
...Dartmouth are the special objects of his spite this time. Hear what he says: "The Orient has seven editors, but we never could, and probably never will, be able to locate their labors. The paper has no editorials. "The nine boyish editors of the Dartmouth are in paroxysms of grief..... Why our editors do not flaunt their patronymics to the breeze is none of the Dartmouth's business." Harvard comes in for the following: "This [i. e. the restriction of books at the Library] is too bad; pious Harvard students, it will be seen, are prohibited a taste...
...rapid succession, fly by single sleds, managed by foreign-looking individuals, and murmurs of "Sapristi," "Corpo di Bacco," "Mein Gott in Himmel," float mistily in the air. One only comes to grief, - his course is peculiar, curve after curve; at last he curved too much an I made an excavation in a snow-bank...
...intuitive perception of the merits and acquirements of each of his pupils, and grades them accordingly with the security of the turn of a copper, will also find relief from a great responsibility. And the "Curve System," that precursor of the machine, that also will come to grief and be laid aside with many other things that have answered a purpose and had their...
What a desolate scene! I think I could write some verses on it that would equal that dreadful howl of grief I read somewhere the other day. If I can crawl to the table, I'll get it. Here it is, - let's see how it goes. No author given, - but it's called A Wail, - yes, "very like a whale," as the Swan of Avon...