Word: harshness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...harsh sound broke in on my reveries; in fact there was no need of any, because I was all broke up already. The sonorous snore of my next-door neighbor came to me as soothingly as the sound of the waves on the beach. As I lay communing with my inner consciousness there was a knock at the door. Without waiting for any summons in walked a form which I had seen before. As he came nearer I saw it was an old acquaintance, familiarly known at college as Lampy. Somewhat surprised at the unexpected apparition, I hesitated a moment...
...Harsh notes by distance blent to music deep...
...editorial article on the Busar in the last number of the Crimson seems to have been the cause of no little disturbance among our cotemporaries. But those who complained of it as being too harsh could hardly, we think, have fully realized the facts of the case. A re-statement of certain of these facts may not be out of place. The Board of Directors of the Memorial Hall Dining Association is a body elected by the members of the Association, that is, by the students who board at Memorial. This Board of Directors, besides having in its charge...
Forgive, dear old lady, the harsh things I've said...